I see nothing, I am not seen
I seek nothing, I am sought
I fear nothing, fear finds me not
I have not any virtue, I have not any vice
I am not blessed, I am not cursed
I take no pride, I take no blame
I have no doubt, I have no certainty
I am Void; And guess what... I am perfect.
4 comments:
An 'attributeless' perfection? Or is the 'attributelessness' itself perfection? Nice one again.
You may like to see this-
http://alongtangents.blogspot.com/2006/06/void.html
It is more desireless, activityless (except for contemplation), rather than "attributeless" perhaps.... I read Deepti's blog. It's interesting.
Nice one.But i see a paradox in calling the 'attributeless' the attributeless.Isn't it like saying that 'attributelessness' is one attribute of the attributeless? Interestingly,the Advaitins have a similar notion of nirguNa brahman.But they are more careful about the paradox.They don't ascribe any predicates to it but define it as 'nEti nEti '(not this, not this)!The best way to talk of 'nothing',perhaps,is to ascribe no predicates, ie not talk of it at all..
About the paradox- exactly my thoughts ("isn't attributelessness itself an attribute?") but I didn't bring it up because you can always tweak the definition of attributelessness to be "possessing no attributes other than attributelessness itself" :)
The Bhagavad Geeta presents a different perspective: referring to Brahman as "triguNa rahitam"- devoid of the three GuNas or qualities of Prakriti (nature). So it does not talk of absence of any (all) qualities in an abstract sense, but qualities as we see in nature, based on desire and activity, or inertia and sloth...
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