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Bodhayanti Parasparam – Vol 10
his bodies – physical, astral and subtle – are the lab. Knowledge arrived at through spiritual states of consciousness is always self-knowledge obtained through a harmonious marriage of intuition and critical discriminative intellect. When we attempt at exploring the content of our consciousness we have difficulties arising from the use of words to denote such states of consciousness. This is because the words condition or dictate the world we live in. Dr. K.C.V stated that "The linguistic habits have become perverse. So, to start proper knowledge for expressing high spiritual knowledge we must develop a new kind of terminology.” (Ref: Vol 1 - pg 163)
12.In a particular tribal society according to an anthropological experiment, there is no word called a 'Square'. We may note that in Nature ‘Square' is not a dominant shape. The interesting fact which got revealed in a study was when the tribals were shown a video of a revolving window frame, the subjects of the study did not perceive a rectangular object rotating in space. They only saw lines that moved. Having no concept of square, they did not identify the shape. Of course, this is a general principle that without naming or giving a term or word to any structure or object we cannot express candidly. This is the reason for form and name going together- in fact these are the basic bondages in any existence. Similarly without a term to identify a structure in their subtle bodies
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