Re: why sat chit anand are not attributes to brahman
Pranam,
Originally Posted by
devotee
"Know that alone to be imperishable which pervades this universe; for no one has power to destroy this indestructible substance" BG 2.17
"Pervades" is not the same as "includes all". For example, "a smell pervades a room" doesn't mean "the room is contained within the smell".
Originally Posted by
devotee
"In the very last of all births the enlightened person worships Me by realizing that all this is God. Such a great soul is very rare indeed." BG 7.19
The exact word used there, I suppose, is "Vasudeva" that is: "who pervades", and not "all this is God". Please correct me if I am wrong here.
"There is nothing else besides Me, Arjuna." BG 8.7
I think this is a misquote; perhaps you mean B.G 7.7 which says "there is nothing beyond/ superior than Me." And not "there is nothing besides me" as suggested here.
"Arjuna, that eternal unmanifest supreme PuruSa in whom all beings reside and by whom all this is pervaded, is attainable only through exclusive
Devotion." 8. 22
"yasya antaḥ-sthāni bhūtāni" means "inside whom jiva-s reside". But this can mean "the room that has a cat inside it (but the cat still not a part of the room)". So this means Purusha is of infinite, all-encompassing nature, but still not "everything" necessarily.
"The whole of this universe is
permeated by Me as unmanifest Divinity, and all beings dwell on the idea within Me. But really speaking, I am not present in them." BG 9.4
Again, "permeates" means "pervades", not "contains".
Now, that is what we say, "Everything is Brahman". What is wrong in it ?
So, the "wrong" is:
Brahman (Brahm) pervades everything -- is well evidenced. But "Brahman contains everything" has a weak support, if at all, and something open to discussion.
The "right" what we know firmly from our texts is:
"Brahman is Nothing"
as also,
"This Nothingness pervades Everything"
and,
"This is attained by neti-neti (this is not That, that also is not That)"
Things to remember:
1. Life = yajña
2. Depth of Āstika knowledge is directly proportional
to the richness of Sanskrit it is written in
3. Āstika = Bhārata ("east") / Ārya ("west")
4. Varṇa = tripartite division of Vedic polity
5. r = c. x²
where,
r = realisation
constant c = intelligence
variable x = bhakti
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