Saturday, January 30, 2016

How experience along with reasoning will confirm the shAstra pramAna


When I see an object, and in the waker experience, there is

1. The mind as the knower of objects
2. The particular state of the mind which is the thought form
3. The object external to the mind

But if I look at 'I', I is giving existence and consciousness, to the limited mind, which has to know many things.

Now any object, it IS, but we see that through other means of knowledge, we are not able to understand what it is.

Like when we say sky or water, water and sky are name and form. The name and form IS.
But what IS that IS, what is its nature, that we can perhaps say that it  IS existence. But it looks highly likely that the sky has independent existence of its own.

This is false, because sky as we say sky, does not even have homogenous blueness, it is made of composites. Water is made of composites, so we will have to keep going to the atomic smallness to look for existence. But we are assuming many "small" existences combine to form a "big" existence.

This can be easily proven wrong. let us take infintely small existence.
If existence is infinitesimally wrong, adding infintesimally small numbers does not lead to any tangible value. The smallness also is infinite and is not limited only by measurement.

Therefore the fundamental error is to determine that existence can be measured or has a measurable dimension, while at the same time, we can certainly say, that anything that is measured DOES have existence.

Smallness or Bigness of existence- The limits of scientific theory

Let us take any substance say Water. Water is made of composites, so we will have to keep going to the smaller level to look for existence. We go down to a microscope and observe phenomenon that we call as atoms, which we further observe and infer and call them protons , neutrons electrons, then we durther go smaller and see bosons nuetrinos and so on.

But there is a fundamental mathematical issue here.
But we are assuming many "small" existences combine to form a "big" existence.

This can be easily proven wrong. let us take infintely small existence.If we go down the route of breaking existence down to its parts, and assume that existence is a small part, that combines to form a larger whole, then
If existence is infinitesimally wrong, adding infintesimally small numbers does not lead to any tangible value. The smallness also is infinite and is not limited only by measurement.

Therefore the fundamental error is to determine that existence can be measured or has a measurable dimension, while at the same time, we can certainly say, that anything that is measured DOES have existence.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Brahman alone exists

What exists is brahman alone.
But because of the upAdhi called mind, it looks as though mind exists.

When a person feels happy, that happiness is not intrinsic to the mind at all.
There is no such thing as a happy mind, that exists independently.

States of mind are due to ignorance, or due to upAdhi as a result of prArabdha karma.
No state of mind can compare to brahman.

Every moment implies an experience, and this includes the experience of the emotional state of mind.
When the mind is aborbed in knowledge, it is as good as destroyed. This destroyed mind is not completely destroyed, rather its viskhepa, or its potential to project subjectivity is destroyed.

But due to its prArabdha karma, the essential nature of mind still continues, which is its ability to reflect and to stay. This is what is the Ananda experienced by a jivanmukta, due to the reflection of the self as a result of prArabdha karma.

What is maya