Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

Chapter-8 : Control of the Instruments of Knowledge.7. We take for granted that everything is clear to us the moment something is presented before our eyes; but it is not so clear. The presentation of an object – call it the world or the universe, if you so like – before our consciousness in the process of sensory perception is conditioned by invisible operations which go by the name of the space and the time factors. Space and time refuse to be regarded as objects of the senses. They somehow connive to remain independent of our idea of the object of knowledge, and secretly they manoeuvre a misconstruing of everything by the perceiving subject by interfering with every type of knowing – knowing in any way whatsoever. Space and time interfere with us inwardly as well as outwardly – perpetually, continually, unremittingly. Swami Krishnananda   To be continued ....

Chapter-8 : Control of the Instruments of Knowledge.6. The phenomenality, or the relative character of the world or the universe, becomes apparent due to the consequence that follows from a sensory interpretation of the universe. The interpretation of the object by means of the instrument of even the mind, much less the senses, is not a proper attitude either of the mind or of the senses in regard to the object. Nothing can be known by placing it as a total outsider to the consciousness that intends to know it. Knowledge, or the knowledge process, is a crucial issue in profounder studies in our educational career. This profundity involved in the very process of knowing anything is the secret of philosophical analysis and conclusions. Swami Krishnananda   To be continued ....

Swami Vivekananda's historic speech on 11 September, 1893. Chapter-8 : Control of the Instruments of Knowledge.5. The world is not capable of being known correctly by the employment of the sense organs. This would bring us to the point as to why it has been held again and again that the world of sensory perception is relative and phenomenal, and it is not absolute, not noumenal. What we see with our eyes or sense with any other sense organ is a phenomenal world; it is not the real world. Hence, the joys of the phenomenal world are also phenomenal. They are not real joys. Swami Krishnananda   To be continued ....                            Swami Vivekananda's historic speech on 11 September, 1893.        ADDRESS AT THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS - RESPONSE TO WELCOME                               ...

Chapter-8 : Control of the Instruments of Knowledge.4. There is no need to repeat the reasons why the world cannot be and should not be considered as an object of consciousness. This has been said again and again, and we need not reiterate this point. If the involvement of ourselves as seeing, knowing, perceiving subjects in the very fact of the  existence of the world or the universe cannot permit us to regard ourselves as totally isolated from the world, then the senses are not a good means of knowing the world as it is in itself. Swami Krishnananda   To be continued .... Today Vinayaka Chaturthy :                               Lord Ganesa symbolic, understand well, the Matmyam; and pray!