Sri Tandavaraya Swami
Finding that the loving disciple was keeping to him like his shadow, the Master asked him: "Are you able to stay unshaken as a mere witness? Have all your doubts disappeared? Or does the sense of differentiation creep in at times?"
On hearing this the disciple bowed to the feet of the Master and said: "Father, dare the phantoms of differentiation, which can roam about only in the darkness of ignorance, in the wilderness of worldly life, appear to the inner vision in the broad day light of wisdom, after the sun of your teaching has risen over the summit of your grace? Even after the devil is exorcised, just as the person who was possessed is further protected by a talisman against any return of the trouble, so also though my ignorance has already been dispelled by your teaching, yet sir, I seek more from you that I may be firmly fixed in the Self."
"You were pleased to say: 'Know it from the scriptures the Non-dual Brahman cannot be reached by speech. It must be realized in the Heart, Self-shining Brahman cannot be reached by the miserable mind'. I have doubts about these two statements. Please clear them."
Master: "As Brahman is not an object of the senses nor of inference, and as there is no second to It, It is beyond direct perception, inference or analogy. Also know that being free from attributes, It cannot be expressed by words. The Vedas which declare that Brahman lies beyond words also signify It by the text (Tat tvam asi). If you ask which is right, know that both are right, for the Vedas can never be untrue. A girl says 'not he, not he' of all others, and remains hy and silent when her lover is pointed out. In the same way, the vedas clearly deny what is not brahman as 'not this, not this', and indicate brahman by silence."
(to be continued)
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