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Re:aham Brahmasmi - 3 of 10
> From: sadananda@anvil.nrl.navy.mil (K. Sadananda)
> The next point I want to clarify is according to advaita - sat, chit, and
> ananda are not attributes of Brahman. Brahman being infiniteness, by
> definition there cannot be any attributes because of the following reasons:
> The word attribute - guna in samskrit - is that which qualifies the noun
> - that is it is an adjective. Noun refers to an object. And the
> adjectives are qualifiers to the noun or the object in question. But
> Brahman is not an object.
This is a pretty weak argument since we see _so many_ descriptions of
Brahman in all the Upanishads that do describe qualities. You have already
said one -- prajnAna brahma; others like brahma satyam ananta jnanam (sorry
if I got the order wrong on that one); om purnam adah purnam idam, etc.
And it goes against one of your next arguments --
> flattered. Any thing we say will be an understatement. All one can say
> that He has infinite gunas (ananta kalyana guna).
