Philosophy East and West, October 1st, 2001
This article has three sections: an introduction, a stretch of textual interpretation, and a final evaluative argument. The upshot of the middle section is that the eighth-century Advaitin Sankara in his commentary on the first four sutras of the Brahmasutra (the catuhsutri) intimates a mystic/sensory parallelism thesis. Brahman as a preexistent reality not dependent on human cognition (or activity) gives rise to mystical knowledge (brahma-vidya) in a fashion parallel to the way that objects of sensory experience give rise to sensory information. The upshot of the final section is a certain ...
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