Today let us contemplate the nature of the experience of Brahman. In the next couple of talks, we shall analyze, difference aspects of the experience of Brahman, as per the teachings of Advaita vedanta
All our experiences in life involve a subject and object duality. I see the flower, the flower is the object and I am the seer. There are three aspects of this, one is the seen, the seer, and the process of seeing. Or I would say, the object is known, the subject is the knower and there is knowledge. So, there are three, the knower, the known and the knowledge. This is the nature of our worldly experience or empirical experience. This is the experience of the Jiva, the individual soul. In any experience, there are three aspects. The known, the knower, and the knowledge. Without that there is no experience. If there is no object, then there is no experience. If there is no knower, there is no experience. Without knowledge, there is no experience. These three factors of experience are called “Triputi”. ‘Tri’ means the three aspects.
What about Brahmanubhava? The experience or Brahmanubhuti, the experience of Brahman? Brahman is non-dual. Brahman is the subject, Brahman is the object, Brahman is the knowledge. There is nothing other than Brahman. It is pure Consciousness. Consciousness alone is Brahman. It is non-dual. Which means, there is no subject, there is no object and there is no knowledge. Or I would say that subject, object, knowledge all of them become one. The Triputi disappears in Brahmanubhava. The three factors disappear in Brahmanubhava.
When three factors disappear, is there knowledge? There is knowledge, there is a pure knowledge. Now, this pure knowledge is not related to any subject or any object. Is there any experiencer? There is no experiencer. It is an experience without an experiencer. TheTriputi disappears in non-dual realization. So, this is the nature of Brahmanubhava.
Different aspects of Brahmanubhava, we will analyze further in future talks.
Pranams