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Subject: REQUEST : Advaita Question
Ram Gopalaswamy (tg@etsd.ml.com ) wrote:
>The words "nirGuna" and "Ananda" sound contradictory in the following
>Adavaitic cliche statements.
>(1) "nirGuna Brahman is the Supreme Reality"
^^^^^^^
>(2) "Brahman is Sat-Cit-Ananda"
^^^^^^
>Could someone explain with quotations from the Sruti ?
Ananda is not an attribute of Brahman in Advaita Vedanta. Brahman is Ananda
itself. It is not that nirguna Brahman becomes blissful but nirguna Brahman is
bliss itself. So there is no conflict between Brahman being nirguna and
Brahman being Satcidananda.
You can also read the Samkhya and Yoga chapters of the Bhagavad Gita
for a treatment of the nirguna Brahman. Nirguna means without
attributes, thus it cannot be described. That man attempts to
describe it as indescribable itself is a result of his limitation, not
an attribute of the Brahman. Thus the individual may experience the
Brahman as Sat-Cita-Ananda, but the nirguna Brahman has none of these
attributes.
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