A Modern Understanding of Advaita Vedānta: 1. The Absolute as Pure Consciousness

17275 A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF ADVAITA VEDĀNTA 1. THE ABSOLUTE AS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS Kalidas Bhattacharya A Essence and accident taken together, the person called 'I* is an individual unit consisting of a body, a mind and what will be shown as its essential presupposition-pure subjectivity, called also pure consciousness Not that the particular body and

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भट्टाचार्य अद्वैत वेदान्त की आधुनिक पुनर्व्याख्या आरम्भ करते हैं। 'मैं' कहा जाने वाला व्यक्ति शरीर, मन और शुद्ध चैतन्य की प्रायः अभिन्न इकाई के रूप में दिया हुआ है; गहराती हुई विचार-प्रक्रिया से ही ये तीनों क्रमशः पृथक् होते हैं, जैसे किसी परिस्थिति में से आकार पृथक् होते हैं। Bhattacharya opens a modern restatement of Advaita Vedanta. The person called 'I' is given as a nearly homogeneous unity of body, mind and pure subjectivity, out of which the three are only progressively distinguished by a deepening of reflection, much as forms are distinguished out of a given situation.

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