God talk

1 st July   2020   Page 19 From the unconditioned   Brahman with our situation of …”suffering, old age, death, hunger and thirst….   A prey to fear, frustration, and despair.” For these sort of Reasons Nikhilananda says that Brahman at this point cannot be an object of worship   …”for no relationship whatsoever can be formed”.   We could go on with the unconditioned Brahman, but I think the untouchability of Brahman has been explained well enough but not perfectly.

30 th June 2020 Page 15 on the first sentences of each paragraph he says the following “…The unconditioned Brahman is free from the limiting adjuncts of space, time and causation … The timelessness of the Unconditioned Brahman is indicated by the statement that it is free from the limitations of past, present and future   … Brahman is independent of causation… Brahman is unknown and unknowable”. page 15.

29 th June 2020 Nikhinanda then has two sections on Brahman; the Unconditioned Brahman and the Conditioned Brahman.   The Unconditioned Brahman The Unconditioned Brahman uses apophatic theology (Negative theology speaking of what Brahman/ God is not) page 14 onwards.   The attributeless Brahman … is described as “Not that which is conscious of the external (objective)world nor that which is conscious of the internal (subjective) world, nor that which is conscious of both nor that which is a mass sentiency, nor that which is sentient…”. Then Nikhilananda goes on with all of the negatives; “… It is unperceived [by any sense organ], unrelated [to anything], incomprehensible [to the mind], inferable, unthinkable, indescribable…”