INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – A CRITIQUE OF WAYS OF KNOWING
being. Yet the Sabda claims to intimate the Reality and
asserts that one who knows the Brahman becomes
Brahman. Mystic experience is of several ranges and in
each it finds the Brahmic experience verified and
enjoyed-known and entered into. The only manner by
which the Sabda can be an intimation and
communication or the Transcendent Brahman or
Reality is through the Veda-seen and entered into by
Rishis, the mantra-drastas. This is also the meaning of
the famous sutra of Badarayana: Sastra-yoni-tvat: The
Veda is the parartha-Sabda, the inner Veda –
adhyatma yoga finds in the transcendental experience
of Unity with Brahman in whom one loses oneself
utterly where in the mind reaching returns not, nor eyes
nor any sense organ or what is expressed in another
sense whom the mind nor eye nor speech reaches or
return baffled and dazzled. The Yogis reach it in their
turya or fourth state or Samadhi, the Rishis in their
sublimest devotion and enjoy the supremest ecstasy,
an overflowing knowledge in its utter liberation from all
limitations which the lower ways of knowing like
perception, inference and poetic fancy impose on the
ultimate knowledge. It is they in their claim to speak the
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