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‘One without a second’
The net
outcome of reducing striving to one goal is that the pilgrim de-relativises,
to wit, she eliminates all but one. When her striving is perfected, i.e.
perfectly realized, she becomes solipsistic, i.e. she exists as sole reality
(in a world of her own) that is absolute and unlimited (Sanskrit: ananta). In her
experiential field only ‘one’ exists as reality, the second to n having been
eliminated. The experience of ‘one only’ (recall Plotin’s ‘The flight of the
alone to the alone’) is interpreted as the Brahman (so poorly understood by
the Shankaracharyia) or God experience. The Brahman or God experience is a
function
not of formal content (for instance, of having perfected a particular
religious belief’s functions schedule) but of
concentration (i.e. of self-condensation to logic unit status), that is to say, of
de-relativization. That
solipsism (basic a wholly self-directed psychosis, functioning as blind
fanaticism) is not a good thing was recognised by at least one ancient
Israelite priest when, probably not later than the Babylonian Captivity, he
invented the story of Adam & Eve. In Genesis 2:18 you can
read Yahweh Elohim (to wit: Yahweh ‘of the Powers’) commenting
(obviously based on personal experience): “It is not good for the man to be
alone” (hence in the same predicament as ‘Yahweh of the Powers’).
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