"NOT KNOWN AND KNOWN"

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Chapter-2.

Mantram-2.


Naham   manye   suvedeti   no  na   vedeti   veda   ca

yo   nastad   veda   tad   no   na   vedeti   veda   ca.


Meaning:-

"I do not think that 'I know it well.' But not that I do not know;  I know too. Who amongst us comprehends It both as the Not Known and as the Known--- He comprehends It."


Explanation:-


Guru's(Teacher) warning to Disciple:-(mantram-1.)


The Guru's kind and critical warning was that  the Self is not known as an object other than the knower himself, and that all such understandings are but the comprehensions of the Intellect and Mind and not the true Experience of Truth through the 'Divine-Eye,' the Intuition. The disciple's answer as contained in this mantram is quite revealing and expressive.


Disciple's reaction to Guru's warning:-



There is an entire drama packed in this mantram : a drama of the student's inner mind. In utter obedience to his teacher, he first admits that he does not think, 'I know it well.' But , when he looks within, it is a lie and so he confesses 'but not that I do not know.' By the time he has finished this much of a true  confession, he has become overwhelmed by his own intimate personal experience and, therefore, he emphatically asserts 'I know too.'  These statements would look like the mad-ravings of one who is not in his senses.

This language of confusing contradictions alone can be employed in dramatising the feelings of the student who has really risen above the ordinary planes of experiences and has come to live the transcendental Divine Consciousness.


Analysis:-


The student admits with reference to the memories of his own Transcendental Experiences of Pure Self, that certainly, his knowledge of it is not similar to his knowledge of chairs and tables. An object other than yourself can be known by you as 'well' or 'not so well', etc. But your knowledge of yourself is not the same as your knowledge of your son or wife. The Self-Knowledge is million times more subjective and hence the knowledge of Self-awareness is too deep to express in words.

"Who amongst us comprehends it, both as the not-known and as the known, he comprehends it.':-


Though student admits that his experience is something novel, strange and unparalleled, yet he is not ready to accept it, because his awareness of it is so intimate and full.  The only way in which the poor mortal in him could express the Immortal he is, is by quoting for with reference to others who have experienced intuitively the same Truth. 

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