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1. 50 words used in Vedanta to point towards Truth. How many of them are positive (via-positiva). Neti Neti, Brahman, Atman, Sat, Chit, Ananda, Satchidananda, Turiya, Akshara, Kutastha, Kutastha, Purusha, Advaita, Satya, Nitya, Nirguna, Nirakara, Purna, Ajata, Asanga, Avangmanogocara, Svaprakasha, Sakshi, Drg, Pratyagat,man, Kshetrajna, Antaryamin, Jiva, Jnana, Vichara, Viveka, Vairagya, Mumukshutva, Mahavakya, Aparoksha Anubhuti, Vidya, Bodha…
Vivek, look at the shape of your own answer for a second. You say you no longer speak much of these words, you get cautious, you try to see the falseness behind them, whenever they arise. That is honest work. But notice what has quietly happened, caution has become the new word you stand on. Where earlier the ego might have hidden behind Brahman or Atman, now it can just as easily hide behind not saying Brahman, behind being the one who caught himself. Neti neti was never meant to end in a stable place called cautious, it was meant to keep going. So the question worth sitting with is not whether you use these words less, but whether the checking itself has become comfortable, a new small identity of the careful seeker. Keep turning that same suspicion on the caution too.
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