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Date Posted: 14:36:20 09/26/05 Mon
Author: H - 12 Aug 2005
Subject: Re: Purana Purusha excerpt
In reply to: m - 11 Aug 2005 's message, "Re: Purana Purusha excerpt" on 12:04:00 09/25/05 Sun


This might be it. I must have caught the phrase when leafing through the book for the first time. But the phrase is ambiguous because there are only two "sunya's" in the original, and Ashok's translations are not necessarily always literal. I don't know Bengali.

But in fact at the end of the same passage he is referring to three subsequent states, the inaccessible, the ageless, and the immortal ones. But I don't know their meaning - they are explained elsewhere in the book I think. Possibly you are right and the overall 'framework' are the two kinds of voids. Nevertheless, philosophically there can only be "nothingness", not two or three graduations of it. This asks for explanation.

Btw I wonder how someone can "visualise" a void? Visualizing is difficult enough if there is something concrete to focus on. But a void?

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