A Modern Understanding of Advaita Vedānta: The Absolute as Pure Consciousness (Contd.)

17.275 A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF ADVAITA VEDANTA THE ABSOLUTE AS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS (Contd.) Kalidas Bhattacarya A Introspection, we have held till now, is pure subjectvity. subjectivity proper But there is something wrong about it, even as distinguished It is still introspection of a mental state. It is still compelled, as it were, to refer to

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भट्टाचार्य तर्क आगे बढ़ाते हैं। अन्तर्निरीक्षण, आध्यात्मिक कोटि का भी, किसी मानसिक अवस्था की ओर संकेत करता ही है और अन्ततः सामान्य व्यवहार-जीवन में लौट आता है; अतः वह व्यक्ति का अन्तिम स्वरूप नहीं हो सकता। वह स्वरूप तो ऐसी अविच्छिन्न विषयिता है जिसे किसी वस्तु का आश्रय नहीं चाहिए। Bhattacharya continues the argument. Introspection, even of the spiritual kind, still refers to a mental state and lapses back into workaday life, so it cannot be the final essence of the individual. That essence must be a never-lapsing subjectivity under no compulsion to refer to anything objective.

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