… the Shruti says, "विज्ञातारमरे केन विजानीयात् -- well, through what means is that to be known which is the Knower?"
Whatever you know, you know through the instrumentality of your mind. But mind is something material. It is active only because there is the pure Self behind it.
So, how can you know that Self through your mind?
But this only becomes known, after all, that the mind cannot reach the pure Self, no, nor even the intellect.
Our relative knowledge ends just there. Then, when the mind is free from activity or functioning, it vanishes, and the Self is revealed. This state has been described by the commentator Shankara as अपरोक्षानुभूति: or supersensuous perception.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
Whatever you know, you know through the instrumentality of your mind. But mind is something material. It is active only because there is the pure Self behind it.
So, how can you know that Self through your mind?
But this only becomes known, after all, that the mind cannot reach the pure Self, no, nor even the intellect.
Our relative knowledge ends just there. Then, when the mind is free from activity or functioning, it vanishes, and the Self is revealed. This state has been described by the commentator Shankara as अपरोक्षानुभूति: or supersensuous perception.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
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