One Undivided Whole

Disciple:

If each of the terms sat, chit and ananda of which you have spoken, has characteristics of its own, how can the mind which is already unsteady be fixed (on unity)? I do not see that they are different words with the same meaning. I pray you kindly show me how it is all an indivisible, homogeneous whole like honey which is uniform though gathered from different flowers by the bees.

Master: 

Is water tripartite because of its coldness, fluidity and whiteness? Or is fire tripartite because of its light, heat and redness?

The Vedas have analyzed and dismissed the cosmos, beginning with the ether, as unsubstantial, insentient and misery-laden. In contradistinction to this and for easy understanding they have described Brahman as sat-chit-ananda which is One only. The Vedas describe Brahman in affirmative terms as follows: the Eternal, Whole, Unique, the Highest Truth, the Supreme, the Repository or the Source, Peace, Ever-True, Absolute (continuum of the Source, dream and sleep states, and therefore) the Fourth Continuous or Equal in all, the Sight, the Witness of all, Knowledge, Pure, Everlasting, Indweller, the Reality, Ether, Light, the Self, Liberation, the Lord, Subtle and so on;

In negative terms as - the Unmoving, Untainted, Immortal, Immeasurable, Unsullied, beyond speech, not insentient, the Diseaseless, Uncontaminated, Incomparable, Uninterrupted, Unattainable (by the mind or senses), Undivided, Unborn, Infinite, Indestructible, (That which is) without qualities, Undivided, without limbs or parts, Beginningless, Bodiless, Changeless, Non-dual and so on.

When all these qualities, affirmative or otherwise, are considered together in the right way, they point to One only and there can be no other. Many may be the worlds to signify the same. Thus Brahman, signified by sat, chit and ananda is One only. Realize this unity and remain as one Undivided Whole.

Do not say: 'To describe Brahman by qualities is like speaking of a barren mother'. Can there be anyone so talented as to understand the nature of brahman without being told? What the Vedas have revealed out of grace for gaining knowledge of brahman and liberation in life, are not qualities of brahman but brahman itself.