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eternal consciousness, which is beyond creation and destruction,
is called knowing. The consciousness which fills and pervades
the whole universe - like clay in things made of clay, like gold
in things made of gold, and like yarn in things made of yarn -
is called the infinite. The joyful consciousness, the oceanic
bliss without limit, that which is the essential nature of all
joy, is bliss.  The sage has called the ultimate existence, the
brahman, the absolute, the imperishable one - knowledge,
knowing. But it has nothing to do with what we call knowledge.
If we can rightly understand what we call knowledge, then it
will be easy to understand what the sage calls knowledge.  The
first thing is: that our knowledge is always about some object
of knowing; just knowing, pure knowing never happens to us. We
always attain to knowledge about some object; just the knowing,
the pure phenomenon of