Sri Tandavaraya Swami
Disciple: O Lord! like millions of suns rising simultaneously, you have come forth as my Master to dispel the darkness of my ignorance! Hear me again.
In accordance with the statement of the srutis, I have now understood beyond doubt that my self is the indivisible Reality. If you will further establish it by arguments, the truth will be fixed in my mind like an iron spike driven into a living tree.
Master: Being must itself be consciousness. Should the consciousness be different from being, it must be non-existent. How then can the being be revealed?
Again, consciousness must itself be the being. If different from consciousness, it must be insentient. The insentient cannot exist by itself. Thus being and consciousness, being identical, it is also bliss. This is the most agreeable argument (lit., 'seminal line of reasoning'). Otherwise bliss will be non-existent and insentient and there can be no experience of bliss (which is absurd).
How is sat which exists at all times revealed? By itself or by another?
A: By another.
Q: Is that other non-existent or existent?
A: Non-existent.
Q: Fool! Can the son of a barren woman effect anything?
A: Then let it be something existing but different from the original sat.
Q: How is its existence revealed? You must say; 'by another'. Will there be an end to this chain of existent things and their cognisors? Your answer is therefore untenable, so get rid of this false reasoning.
Listen to experience agreeable to scripture and reason. Since the bliss of profound sleep persists as memory, this bliss itself must be knowledge. There was nothing besides it. Existing in the dissolution and deep sleep, you witness the darkness of ignorance. Now entering the Heart abide as the perfect Self!
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