The Jnani's meditation is of two sorts:
(1) to deny and think away everything we are not;
(2) to insist upon what we really are -- the Atman, the One Self -- existence, Knowledge, and Bliss.
The true rationalist must go on and fearlessly follow his reason to its farthest limits. It will not answer to stop anywhere on the road. When we begin to deny, all must go until we reach what cannot be thrown away or denied, which is the real "I".
That "I" is the witness of the universe, it is unchangeable, eternal, infinite. Now, layer after layer of ignorance covers it from our eyes, but it remains ever the same.
- Swami Vivekananda,
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(1) to deny and think away everything we are not;
(2) to insist upon what we really are -- the Atman, the One Self -- existence, Knowledge, and Bliss.
The true rationalist must go on and fearlessly follow his reason to its farthest limits. It will not answer to stop anywhere on the road. When we begin to deny, all must go until we reach what cannot be thrown away or denied, which is the real "I".
That "I" is the witness of the universe, it is unchangeable, eternal, infinite. Now, layer after layer of ignorance covers it from our eyes, but it remains ever the same.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Discourses on Jnana-Yoga, US
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