to logical formulation
or adequately expressed
symbolically.
But there is a conscious
awareness of God,
though it is ever tenuous
and tinged with doubt.
of light or darkness,
affirmation or negation,
immanence or transcendence.
It is both, ‘either or’
and ‘neither nor’.
Man’s participation
is both active and passive,
but the control does not lie with him.
How am I to think of God himself?
The only answer I can give is: ‘I don’t know’.
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or adequately expressed symbolically.
But there is a conscious awareness
of God, though it is ever tenuous
and tinged with doubt.
On the conceptual level,
where logic and rationality
are in command
the mystical experience
may admit of doubt.
In fact, it may perhaps admit of
nothing else but doubt.
But on the level of immediate intuition,
it admits of no doubt.
This is a level in which,
an experience impresses
itself upon us directly
without ambiguity.
It is the level on which we experience
reality as we experience our own being.
In this level, there exists no doubt.
So it is futile for a man to insist
on a logical formulation
of the process or the experience.
(Graphic: الفنان التشكيلي الإيراني فريدون رسولي (Freydoon Rassouli)[الأرشيف] – الصالون الثقافى لصدانا
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or expressed well symbolically.
There is a conscious awareness of God,
though, ever tenuous and tinged with doubt.
But there is no doubt
in immediate intuition.
It is an experience
that impresses itself
up on us directly
without ambiguity.
(Feature Articles: Musings on Awareness, Part 09- March 2011
Radiosai, PROF. G. VENKATARAMAN)
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to logical formulation
or adequately expressed
symbolically.
But there is a conscious
awareness of God,
though it is ever tenuous
and tinged with doubt.
On the conceptual level,
where logic and rationality
are in command
the mystical experience
may admit of doubt.
But in the level
of immediate intuition
it admits of no doubt.