Beyond human knowledge and understanding

... all illustrations are inadequate and truth is beyond words.
(p. 548)

The reality is the infinite, undivided consciousness which, not being an object of observation, is unknowable.
(p. 540)

This enlightenment is not brought about by buddhi or intellect. Nor is it attained by the suppresson of the intellect. Enlightenment is not aware of itself for it is not an object of awareness.
(pp. 704-705)

This supreme truth is established only in total silence, not by logic, discussion and argumentation.
(p. 707)

... if you conceptualise this teaching for your intellectual entertainment and do not let it act in your life, you will stumble and fall like a blind man.
(p. 326)

This self-knowledge is not gained by explanations and descriptions, nor by the instructions of others. At all times, everything is known only by direct experience.
(p. 296)

Bhagiratha:

I know that the self alone is real and the body, etc., are not real. But how is it that it is not perfectly clear to me.

Tritala:

Such intellectual knowledge is not knowledge! Unattachment to wife, son and house, equanimity in pleasure and pain, love of solitude, being firmly established in self-knowledge -- this is knowledge, all else is ignorance! Only when the egosense is thinned out does this self-knowledge arise.
(pp. 420-421)

©1999 by Deb Platt