tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post3373440290364396777..comments2023-08-27T12:35:12.308+02:00Comments on sanscrite cogitare, sanscrite loqui: Action and knowledgeelisa freschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17068583874519657894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post-59910869453719810842010-09-13T23:59:28.399+02:002010-09-13T23:59:28.399+02:00For Sankara everything is within reality, there is...For Sankara everything is within reality, there is nothing that is outside it so that strictly there is nothing to do to get there. Being conscious is already being there, just being is being there. Mysteriously then, jnana (realisation) is not an event.mchael reidynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post-65094839123570842122010-09-13T15:11:16.711+02:002010-09-13T15:11:16.711+02:00Thanks for this interesting comment. Please, forgi...Thanks for this interesting comment. Please, forgive me if I try to simplify your point:<br /><br />knowledge as an action cannot belong to the Intellect (buddhi) nor to the self (ātman), since the latter lacks agency and the former consciousness.<br /><br />However, I guess that Śaṅkara's praise of jñānamārga does not refer to this meaning of jñāna, but rather to jñāna insofar as it coincides with Consciousness. Isn't it?elisa freschihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068583874519657894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post-77286991631411519802010-09-11T03:33:00.745+02:002010-09-11T03:33:00.745+02:00In Upadesasahasri Shankara notes: " the intel...In Upadesasahasri Shankara notes: " the intellect has no consciousness and the Self no action. The word 'knows' can, therefore, reasonably be applied to neither of them." (Chap.XVIII. #54) <br /><br />As I think I mentioned before the intellect is regarded as inert i.e. without consciousness in advaita. Thus knowing cannot be asserted of it. Being pervaded by the Self its interactions with the world have knowledge as a precipitate. My understanding of this is a panpsychist one. By being or existing any entity whatever reflects consciousness or awareness according to the level of its material complexity. All things inform each other. Thus emergentism is avoided.<br /><br />"The Self is said to be knowing things on account of the superimposition of the agency of the intellect on it. Similarly the intellect is called a knower owing to the superimposition of Consciousness on it." (ibid.#65)michael reidyhttp://ombhurbhuva.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com