METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, part II

METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, part II - by Guenther Zuehlsdorf, translation from the original German edition into Portuguese by Huberto Rohden and translated into English by Flavio de Mello.

 

 

 

 

 

According to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Akakshara is (the unchanging Reality), Brahman, the Life of all lives, eye for all eyes, the Thinking of all thoughts. "Who knows that in fact knows the Cause of all causes. Brahman can only be comprehended as the Knowledge itself, which is identical to the Reality and inseparable from it, because it is beyond demonstration and beyond the borders of our faculty of reasoning".

 

 

However, for the common man, the Truth is something entirely different; does not represents, strictly speaking, a knowledge, even less, a mystical intuition, it is just a theory or mere speculation, an explanation of  known or unknown facts. Knowing is for the profane man, a means to calm down his inquisitive intelligence, in finding plausible answers to certain questions, without diving into the depths of Reality. For the common man, the truth is merely a brain job,  for the purpose to channel, always new sustenance to the insatiable dialectic of intelligence; and in doing so, man blocks the way to experience the inner silence.

 

 

Our philosophical and theological speculations are like flowers that we paint on the glass windows of our lives - and which hampers the vision of the Reality beyond. We cannot find the true and characteristic problem of self-realization on the theoretical and dogmatic level, but it is, above all, a matter of practical experience: the view of the relativity of all our usual way of thinking, especially the control of our own thoughts, who delights in bouncing around from image to image, as restless puppy dogs.

 

 

"Inconstant are our thoughts.

 

Immense is our illusion.

 

To have control over our self.

 

It is as difficult as holding the winds".  Tejobindu Upanishad

 

 

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