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KENOPANISAD
2.
Nor mind—This
is true only with regard to the
gross, sense-bound mind. As Sri Ramakrishna has
put it, when the mind is purified—i. e., freed from its
sensuality—it becomes one with pure reason or knowledge,
which is identical with the Atman. Pure mind, intuitive
reason, and Atman ate identical.
3, We do not therefore know It etc.—
The
Atmam is
beyond the ken of the senses and the mind, It being the
source of their intelligence. So It cannot be known as
other things of the world, i. e., in an objective sense. As
the Upanisad puts it in II. 2, one who says he knows It,
does not know It. Thus, not being known in the ordinary
sense, It cannot be explained by words like other objects.
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ancients who expounded It to us.
[Nous—I,
The known—All
objective phenomena,
both internal and external.
2.
Beyond the unknown—This
is to ward off the
misconception that the Atman is something like the