Sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - 6. Swami Krishnananda

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23/02/2020
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#There was a very learned lady in that assembly of Janaka called Gargi.

##"I'll challenge Yajnavalkya with my questions. Answer them!"

#She discharged arrows like Rama's arrows.

###"Where is the sky located? Where is time located? Where is Brahma Loka located? Where is anything located?" "Don't ask more. Don't ask questions like that," said Yajnavalkya, "lest your head be down." Then she did not speak, she kept quiet.

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#Do not talk too much about the Self, you are interfering with your own Self. You can go Scot-free by interfering with other people, but you cannot interfere with your Self and then be all right. You will destroy your very existence.

##So Upanishadic knowledge is like dynamite – it can burst on your own self if the purity is not enough. That is said because with the Self there is no seeing process.

*But does it mean that the Supreme Being does not see anything?

###It does not see, and yet it sees.

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#Because there is no distinction between seeing and not seeing there, in that condition. God has two kinds of knowledge – general knowledge and particular knowledge. The general knowledge is that the structure of the universe is clear to your mind. Every detail, every bit of the universe is known to you. 

##The particularised knowledge means even the hair of a person can be counted. 

*How many living beings are there? 

*How much hair does each one have? 

###They are all counted. And counting does not require timing; one, two, three, four. It is a non-mathematical calculation at once, an unthinkable mathematical feat is achieved there. God knows every little thing. If a cat is moving on the mountain there, He will know that the cat is moving. You will think that God has no other work.

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To be continued ...

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