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KENOPANISAD
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3.
The known—This
is from the subjective point
of view. It is known not as an object but as pure Self-
awareness intuited in and through every mode of thought,
gprati-bodhaviditam', as stated in the fourth verse of this
Part,
Erctrurn F;Tr ;14 ;rn Efftf k
aura R4mit ingingt3/44rnmr;
Om Brahman) ;174 to whom smaR is unknown Tgt
to him ;mg, is Known ziF4 (i, e., by whom) it is
known B: he 9' not knows (4k;t1..Becanse) fOlWri
to the wise (fit Brahman) at -9#71:k is unknown ;
to the ignorant fkgra:r( is known.
3. Preceptor : He understands It, who conceives'
It not, and he understands It not, who conceives' It. It is
the unknown' to the man of true knowledge, but to the
ignorant It is the ,known”.
[NoTEs—In this and the succeeding verses of this
Part the preceptor makes comments on the conversation
given above so as to elucidate its meaning.
1.
Conceives It not •—Brahman,
the Absolute, is
beyond all conceptions of the mind. It is the ultimate
Subject, the source and seer of even the mind and cannot
therefore be the object of any conceptual thinking. Only
the man of true illumination can understand Its non-
objective reality; hence he makes no conceptions of It.