Sat-cit-ananda
One outcome
of Shankara’s monumental blunder was the
attribution of sat-cit-ananda
(roughly meaning being/truth, knowledge/consiousness
and bliss (earlier ananta, suggesting
limitlessness) to (the nirguna)
Brahman/Atman/Prajapati or even the identity of
sat-cit-ananda with the (nirguna =
unqualified) former. That was a serious error of observation. Had Shankara taken the unqualified tattvamasi seriously,
meaning as actually stated in the Upanishad, his followers, right up to the youthful
(meaning immature) Vivekananda, would have realised that sat-cit-ananda happens as saguna Brahman
(= Atman/Prajapati, and which means as all life
forms which ‘are Brahman’) response if and when the Brahman/Atman/Prajapati dharma is completed within any saguna state
(i.e. as mundane, meaning delimited niche attainment). In other
words, if and when a (localised) form (and of which there are n, and ‘all of
which are Brahman because tattvamasi)
completes (and so perfects) its dharma, and thereby the universal dharma of
which it and/or its local dharma happens as fractal elaboration, it
experiences ananda (i.e. bliss, joy,
happiness and so on) + sat + cit. If and when a form fails to complete its
dharma, and thereby the universal dharma, leaving both incomplete, it
experiences
dukkha (pain, unhappiness and
so on) + sat + cit. In this
regard see my book: ‘How to
make and fake happiness’ Determining
the goal of sramanic (hence adolescent) endeavour to
be sat-cit-ananda (= brahman/atman/prajapti) was
fundamentally flawed (in much the same way as deciding that orgasm is the aim
of sex or that the purpose of life is happiness). The goal of all life forms
is the completion/perfection of their (local or personal) dharma/law (as
fractal elaboration of the universal dharma/law of creation). Sat-cit-ananda happens as
side-effect of completion/perfection of any and every (local or personal)
dharma whereby the content of the dharma is irrelevant (i.e. any and every
completed dharma will do the trick) and the quality of completion/perfection
is relative to the initial and end states of the form attempting to complete
its dharma/law/rules set. |