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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   dagnabit wrote:   
   > brian mitchell wrote   
   >> dagnabit wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >nisargadatta maharaj once said that what he was was   
   >> >neither conceivable nor perceivable.   
   >>   
   >> Do you, or he, make some distinction between perceivable and   
   >> experienceable (ugly word, but it will have to do)? One wonders by   
   >> what means he determined that what he was was neither conceivable nor   
   >> perceivable? How did his self appear to him?   
   >   
   >he would always say that his state was not an   
   >experience. he also said that any answer he   
   >would give as to his state would be just another   
   >concept and that his state was prior to concept.   
   >   
   >he said his state was the ultimate state and that   
   >you could not describe it and that it was free of   
   >all the universes, whatever that might mean.   
      
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