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 [Between vyakta and avyakta] there is no difference. It is like light and daylight. The universe is full of light which you do not see; but the same light you see as daylight. And what the daylight reveals is the vyakti. The person is always the object, the witness is the subject, and their relation of mutual dependence is the reflection of their absolute identity. You imagine that they are distinct and separate states. They are not. They are the same consciousness at rest and in movement, each state conscious of the other. In chit, man knows God and God knows man. In chit, the man shapes the world and the world shapes man. Chit is the link, the bridge between extremes, the balancing and uniting factor in every experience. The totality of the perceived is what you call matter. The totality of all perceivers is what you call the universal mind. The identity of the two, manifesting itself as perceptibility and perceiving, harmony and intelligence, loveliness and loving, reasserts itself eternally.

He must have presented quite an appearance in those days. He kept his head shaved, wore a goatee, and dressed entirely in black, including a black snap-brim fedora reminiscent of the gangsters of the day.

質問者　観照者意識が真我なのでしょうか？

マハラジ　観照者意識はマインドのなかの実在の反映だ。
実在はその彼方にある。
観照者とは、それを超えて彼方へと通り抜けていくための扉なのだ。

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead , and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox, or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at least bestowed by time.

【語句】 heresy 異教徒、 flatter oneself that節 ..だとうぬぼれる、..であると、いい気になる
【コメント】昭和９年・東京帝国大学法学部の出題。文章の対象性に目を付けて下さい。

五感同士の差異は実際はない？
すべては視覚的に捉えることができる？