KENOPANISHAD - 1.2.8. Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ====================================================================== Thursday, October 06, 2022. 05:30. SECTION -TWO : MANTRAM - 4. Post -8. ======================================================================== Mantram - 4 : continued.... There is another theory which holds that the Self knows itself by itself, by becoming the subject as well as the object. This theory makes the Self perishable, because it divides the Self into two parts. The Self can never became an object of itself. If it does, it has to die. One thing cannot become another thing unless it dies to that one thing. The Self does not require another consciousness to know itself. Therefore it cannot be said that the Self becomes an object to know itself. The theory of the Buddhists that the Self is perishable is wrong. According to the Buddhists, the Self is a constantly changing process, and not an existent being. A process is never what it i