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the characteristics of empirical consciousness, it should not be abstracted from all attributes as is done by the Vedāntin The Vedāntin relying upon the fact that the characteristics and attributes of the empirical ego are entirely alien to the nature of the Supreme Self, justifiably places the Supreme Self quite beyond the empirical properties Swami Kunda Kunda also emphasises the same fact when he says that all other mental attributes are entirely alien to "me” This justifiable denial of the empirical impuie attributes to the Supreme Self is immediately followed by the predication of the attributes of pure perception and knowledge which are present in the Supreme Self even after transcending the empirical nature Of course it should not be misunderstood that these properties of perception and knowledge are the same as the process of perceiving and knowing associated with the empirical ego In the latter case though the properties are called by the same names, they are entirely limited by physical conditions Whereas the pure perception and pure knowledge associated' with the Supreme Self are the unconditioned and unlimited manifestation of the Supreme Self Thus it should be noted that the Advaitin, though he keeps company with Bhagawan Kunda Kunda to a considerable distance in the path of metaphysical investigation, ultimately parts company and walks to a different goal Thus in short the Supreme Self of Sri Kunda Kunda is not the same as the Supreme Self of the other schools
Next it is pointed out that a person who is equipped with this kind of discriminative wisdom, will not consider alien mental states to be his own
को णाम भणिज्ज बहो णाउ सव्वे 'परोयये भावे ।
मज्झमिण ति य वयण जाणतो अप्पय सुद्ध ॥३०॥ Ko nāma bhanijja vuho nayum savve paroyaye bhāve Majjhaminam tiya vayanam jananto appayam suddham (300)
को नाम भणेत् बुध ज्ञात्वा सर्वान् परोदयान् भावान् । 'ममेदमिति च वचन जाननात्मान शुद्धम् ॥३०॥
Teiga Hai
