Advaita Vedanta

Author(s): Kalidas Bhattacharya, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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particular stage of subjectivity is attained we need not repeat the good actions that were needed for coming up to that stages, though other good actions are necessary for further progress along the line. Complete no-action means that with final realization of pure consciousness there need not be a turn-back to objects and, therefore, to will. It may be noted in passing that actions necessary for coming up to particular stages of subjectivity are necessary as only extrinsic means. Realization at whatever stage is sui generis--it is subjectivity (at the ultimate stage, consciousness) discovering itself.
The Hegelians have spoken of another type of concrete freedom. It is freedom enjoyed in all theoretical pursuit of Nature—the freedom of Science. In so far as Science is a dispassionate study it is free, and in so far as it is rich in content it is concrete-at least more concrete than the Advaitin's pure consciousness which either has no content or, at the most, looks dispassionately at one, as in introspection. The Advai. tin, however, would reply that introspection's dispassionate ‘looking at is just a step for it to realize its in-itself and that once this in-itself is realized there is no need felt to turn outward and look at the contents once again, even to study them dispassionately. This does not, of course, prevent anyone from coming out of the shell. One may choose not to remain engrossed in the bliss of self-awareness but come out for dispassionate study, as in Science. But that, at its best, is only another alternative whica ine Auvaitia simply does not prefer.
There is a third alternative too-one advocated by the Tāntrikas and probably also by Hegel. It is that every upward process of realization 12 of pure subjectivity is, in that very process, equally a downward free construction in knowledge and creation through will. The Advaita has no preference for this alternative. Regarding ultimate alternatives there is no
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fais upward process is as much of partial realization as of symbolic de-construction or de-creation.