'Ignorance itself gets transformed into Knowledge' - Vidyaranya.
Srikrishna Ghadiyaram
srikrishna_ghadiyaram at YAHOO.COM
Tue Dec 10 18:45:24 CST 2002
Hari Om !!
--- "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> Thus it is Consciousness
> that is the unknown and the inert matter is formed
> of ajnana. Whatever is
> the cause or the effect should be regarded as the
> inert matter
> (I do not quite comprehend the inclusion of the
> words the cause or in
> this last sentence. I am happy with the sentence
> without these three
> words! -- VK)
Can we translate the words 'the cause' as 'karma' ? In which case it is
obviously 'inert matter'. Also, in advaita we do not even accept 'Brahman'
being the 'cause', considering the 'illusion' theory.
Am I thinking right ??
Om Namo Narayanaya !!
Srikrishna
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