Taittiriya Upanishad - 5. Swami Krishnananda
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*Tasmat va etasmat atmana akasas sambhutah (Tait. 2.1.1) :
*"From this Universal Atman, space emanated" – as it were.
*This is something hard for us to conceive at the present moment.
**Space is actually the negation of the infinity of Brahman. Infinity does not mean extension or dimension – but space is extension, dimension, distance. So, immediately a contradiction is introduced at the very beginning of the concept of creation.
**God is negated, as it were, for various reasons, the moment creation is conceived, one reason being that the creation appears as an external manifestation, whereas God – Brahman – is the Universal Existence.
***We know the difference between universality and externality.
#The moment there is the concept of space, there is also automatically introduced into it the concept of time. We cannot separate space and time. Duration and extension go together.
#Actually, according to modern findings at least, space and time are not dead appearances, lifeless presentations before us.
##For us, to our common perception, spatial extension may look like a lifeless dimension which does not speak, which does not think, which has nothing to say.
##Time also seems to be some kind of movement which has no brain to think; it is like a machine moving like a bulldozer in some direction.
##This is what we may think with our paltry, inadequate knowledge of what space and time are.
###Space and time are not dead things; they are basic vibrations of the cosmos. Motion goes together with space-time. Not only according to modern scientific terminology, but also in the ancient thought of the Agama and Tantra, one may say that the concept of space-time goes together with motion, force.
To be continued ...
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22/04/2020.
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1.
*Tasmat va etasmat atmana akasas sambhutah (Tait. 2.1.1) :
*"From this Universal Atman, space emanated" – as it were.
*This is something hard for us to conceive at the present moment.
**Space is actually the negation of the infinity of Brahman. Infinity does not mean extension or dimension – but space is extension, dimension, distance. So, immediately a contradiction is introduced at the very beginning of the concept of creation.
**God is negated, as it were, for various reasons, the moment creation is conceived, one reason being that the creation appears as an external manifestation, whereas God – Brahman – is the Universal Existence.
***We know the difference between universality and externality.
#The moment there is the concept of space, there is also automatically introduced into it the concept of time. We cannot separate space and time. Duration and extension go together.
#Actually, according to modern findings at least, space and time are not dead appearances, lifeless presentations before us.
##For us, to our common perception, spatial extension may look like a lifeless dimension which does not speak, which does not think, which has nothing to say.
##Time also seems to be some kind of movement which has no brain to think; it is like a machine moving like a bulldozer in some direction.
##This is what we may think with our paltry, inadequate knowledge of what space and time are.
###Space and time are not dead things; they are basic vibrations of the cosmos. Motion goes together with space-time. Not only according to modern scientific terminology, but also in the ancient thought of the Agama and Tantra, one may say that the concept of space-time goes together with motion, force.
To be continued ...
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