Para vs. Apara
Question: I have some problems understanding apara, para, existence, and presence. Apara exists, but is not present; para is present but does not exist. Are you saying that what is…
Read moreAccessing ‘Para’ (Real)
It would be a good thing to narrow-in on the ‘spookiness’ of the accessing ‘Real’. However, because there is a very great danger that ‘access’ can be conceptualised as an…
Read moreTattvadarshi, Gyaani, and Bullshitter
Let us agree on the proposed division into two categories: “1) That which exists or could exist (2) That which could not and does not exist but is present (therefore…
Read moreEnlightenment by Grace or Efforts or Birth?
9.32 Bhagavadgita māṃ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye ‘pi syuḥ pāpayonayaḥ striyo vaiśyāstathā śūdrās te’ pi yānti parāṃ gatim The situation is a bit more complex. The word ‘yoni’ here does…
Read moreKnowledge and Bullshit about Daffodil
To help you think through the problem you “whether Christians can get enlightened”, try using this analogy. Something, let us call it ‘daffodil’, fascinates us. Let us also assume that…
Read moreColonial Consciousness and Enlightenment
This post will use an imagery as its organising thread, which tracks the search for enlightenment in terms of notions known to us from our secondary and higher education. If…
Read morePsychological Traits and Enlightenment: Ignorance and Knowledge
About the relationship between scientific knowledge and enlightenment: If every human being can become enlightened (at any time, place or culture), it logically follows that some or another hypothesis about…
Read moreHumility is a despicable vice
1. Christianity (to some extent Judaism), presented an idea, unknown to the world in which it grew, namely the Pagan world of Rome. The idea was that human beings are…
Read moreAlleged conflict between ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Brahmanism’
If the ‘I’ cannot be individuated or described, then there is no possible distinction between the ‘I’ and ‘the Brahman’. They are different names for ‘self-awareness’ which pick out the…
Read moreIs Sat explainable?
[Note: sat, सत् = Real ] No, I cannot explain the real; nor has anybody else in the world. Even more radically: the Real can never be ‘explained’, nor will…
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