Balderdash


They did not mean the illusion in the sense in which, you see, the English word is used
Maya means to measure, in Sanskrit the word means to measure
So you cannot measure anything unless you have a point

So if the center is absent, there is no circumference at all
This point has no continuity
This point comes into being in response to the demands of the situation

The demands of the situation creates this point
The subject does not at all exist there
It is the object that creates the subject
It runs counter to the whole philosophical thinking of man in India


So, this subject comes and goes and comes and goes, in response to the things that are happening there
And, it is the object that creates the subject and not the subject that creates the object
This is a simple physiological phenomenon which can be, you see, tested

There is light, if the light is not there you have no way of looking at anything
The light falls on that and the reflection of that light activates the optic nerves
And that in its turn activates the memory cells

When once, you see, the memory cells are activated, all the knowledge you have about it comes into operation
So, it is that thing that is happening there that has created this subject, which is the knowledge you have about that


So when you reduce it to that, you see, you feel the absurdity of talking about the self, the lower self, the higher self, and knowing, self-knowing

The ‘self-knowledge is knowing from moment-to-moment’ is absolute rubbish – balderdash!

You know, you can indulge in such absolute nonsense, and, you see, build philosophical theories, but there is no subject there at all at any time
It's not the subject which creates the object
There is no permanent entity there at all

What is there is only – what you call ‘I’ – is only a first-person singular pronoun, nothing else
And if you don't want to use that ‘I’ to prove that you are a man without ‘I’ it's your privilege

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