[Advaita-l] On silence being not just the absence of sound - it's not abhAvarUpA?

[V Subrahmanian]

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दर्शयति च श्रुतिः पररूपप्रतिषेधेनैव ब्रह्म — निर्विशेषत्वात् — ‘अथात आदेशो
नेति नेति’ (बृ. उ. २ । ३ । ६)
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 ‘अन्यदेव तद्विदितादथो अविदितादधि’ (के. उ. १ । ४)
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 ‘यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते अप्राप्य मनसा सह’ (तै. उ. २ । ४ । १)
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इत्येवमाद्या ।
बाष्कलिना च बाध्वः पृष्टः सन् अवचनेनैव ब्रह्म प्रोवाचेति श्रूयते — ‘स
होवाचाधीहि भो इति स तूष्णीं बभूव तं ह द्वितीये तृतीये वा वचन उवाच ब्रूमः
खलु त्वं तु न विजानासि । *उ**पशान्तोऽयमात्मा’* इति ।

Atman is Quiescence.

regards
subbu

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 5:16 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> A few excerpts from an article on Silence being not just the absence of
> sound.
> (The author uses the term "imperience" to refer to the Qualia or mental
> recreation of a sensory experience after the external stimuli are
> transduced in to nerve signals and fed to the brain . What happens to us
> after that is being termed 'imperience' as different from 'experience'
> which he uses for the external concomitants of sense perception.)
> The article is a contemporary articulation and I was reminded of the
> brihadAraNyaka phrase - 'na hi shrotuH shruter viparilopo vidyate
> avinâshitvât.'
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