Book – II Chapter – II : Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara — Maya, Prakriti, Shakti – Para 4 to Para 5

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 4      An absolute, eternal and infinite Self-existence, Self-awareness, Self-delight of being that secretly supports and pervades the universe even while it is also beyond it,…

Book – II Chapter – II : Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara — Maya, Prakriti, Shakti – Para 2 (3rd Part) to Para 3

Study Notes In the ordinary tongue of metaphysical thought we have to be content with a distant indication, an approximation by abstractions, which may still be of some service to…

Book – II Chapter – I : Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable – Para 22 (4th Part) to Para 24

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 22 Contd.., It would be a temporary phenomenon, not the cause and essence of cosmic existence; its inevitable consummation would be a return of the spirit, not…

Book – II Chapter – I : Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable – Para 21 to Para 22 (3rd Part)

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 21      All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems…

Book – II Chapter – I : Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable – Para 20 continued from 4th Part

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 20 Contd.., At the stage when from the mental it has to move towards its supramental status, one most liberatingly helpful, if not indispensable experience that may…

Book – II Chapter – I : Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable – Para 19 to 20 (3rd Part)

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 19      At the same time indeterminability is also a necessary element in our conception of the Absolute and in our spiritual experience: this is the…