The three points of departure
Kena Upaniṣad
Begins by asking what moves the mind, the eye, the ear — and refuses to let the answer be anything you can objectify.
c. 500 BCE
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- c. 500 BCE
- Where it sits
- The three points of departure
The clearest early statement that the knower can never appear as a known thing.
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- Kenopaniṣad, Chinmaya commentary — Swami Chinmayananda 'By whom is the mind moved?' taken apart as a question about the knower behind every instrument.
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