Can Anger Arise without Duality, and Can Duality Arise without Ignorance?
Uttara Kanda, Doha 112
Doha 112 · Movement 2 of 2
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Lomasa expounds knowledge again and again, now visibly angry. Bhushundi listens while another line of reasoning forms within his mind.
Can anger exist without a sense of two? Can duality remain without ignorance? If the teacher's realization is complete, who stands opposed to whom in this heated exchange?
Bhushundi then asks whether the individual jiva, limited, inert, and governed by maya, can simply be declared equal to Ishvara. His objection is practical as well as metaphysical. A sentence of identity cannot erase the lived difference between dependence and sovereign freedom while ego still argues, burns, and defends itself. Yet the irony also reaches Bhushundi, whose own stubbornness participates in the conflict. Both teacher and disciple are being pressed until concealed limitation appears.
The doctrine speaks of one without a second, while anger draws a line across the banyan shade and stands upon one side.
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-बारंबार सकोप मुनि करइ निरुपन ग्यान। मैं अपनें मन बैठ तब करउँ बिबिध अनुमान।।111(क)।। क्रोध कि द्वेतबुद्धि बिनु द्वैत कि बिनु अग्यान। मायाबस परिछिन्न जड़ जीव कि ईस समान।।111(ख)।।
Again and again the angry sage would expound knowledge, while I sat in my mind, reasoning thus: Can there be anger without dualistic thinking? Can there be duality without ignorance? Can the individual soul, bound by maya, limited and inert, ever be equal to the Supreme Lord?