agyana: existence or absence
I I face some difficulties in giving a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to your question because I am not sure how to understand ‘Samsara’, ‘Jnana’ and its Sanskrit negation ‘Ajnana’,…
Read moreBrahman: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.iv.10
Two caveats. One: the commentary is very, very short. To write down all the things I want to say about this citation requires a long paper and not a brief…
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 moreIs Maya an Illusion? Nonsense sold by Scholars!
According to your account, Vedanta claims that the world is an illusion and that only the Brahman is real. 1. If the world is an illusion, Vedanta has to deny…
Read moreWhat is rubbish about the ‘self’ and what not?
A few points about ‘self’ and about what I have said and have not. 1. Comment: “Say, Mr. X made 1 run, 2 runs, 3, 4, n, and a total of 50 runs.…
Read moreBhakti
Is bhakti what the bhaktas do, or are people bhaktas because they ‘follow’ (bad choice of words, but there is no other way to put it) the ‘bhakti marga’, or…
Read moreWhat is experience? IV
1. If we take our English language use as a reference point, it appears as though we can speak sensibly about experiencing our feelings (‘I experience sadness’), experiencing thoughts (‘I…
Read moreIs enlightenment learnable?
Is enlightenment learnable? (In a less loaded formulation: Can all people be happy?) My answer is an unequivocal ‘yes’. Before we go further, we need to be clear what exactly…
Read moreAvidya, Ajnana, Maaya, Ignorance: a learning process
When we speak about ignorance, we can do so in two ways. One is by talking about ‘how the world is’; the other is by talking about ‘how we think…
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