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Panchadashi Lesson - A0206: Introduction to TRUTH

Panchadashi
Module - A
Unit - A02
Lesson - A0206: Introduction to TRUTH/ EXISTENCE
By Raja Subramaniyan

Statement 10: Knower exists.

No proof is required for this statement. We are the knower and we know that we exist. This is self-evident.

Knower is self-revealing. In order to say something exists we need to use any of our primary sources of knowledge. We cannot say something is without any basis. We need to prove the existence through some source of knowledge like eye, ears, etc.

However, in order to know our existence, we do not have to depend on any source of knowledge. We do not have to deduce that we exist. We KNOW that we exist.

Knower is self-evident.

Statement 11: Knower exists forever.

Objects (Mind/ Body included) appear and disappear but the knower exists forever. This is proved in Statement 9.

We know that we exist. From when did we start existing?

Example: On landing in America, Columbus asked a native, "When did you come here?"

The answer will be "I do not know", which actually means "Always".

Since we do not know when we started our existence, it can be deduced that we exist all the time.

From the fact that knower is one, we can derive that the knower is eternal. If the knower does not exist forever, it means the knower is subject to birth/death. This is not possible since Knower is only one and there is no one else to observe its birth and death. Just because knower is the ONE, it has to be eternal.

Statement 12: Existence is the very nature of Knower.

If the knower has borrowed existence then it will not last long. Since it is proved that the knower exists forever it has to be knower's essential nature.

The equivalent words for 'Existence' are Truth, Ever and Eternal. The truth is defined as something that exists forever, in the past, present and future. That which cannot be changed/ modified/ destroyed is the absolute truth.

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