Many have heard of Drg Drsya Viveka of Sankara. - The philosophy of the perceiver and the perceived. In the cascade of the successive perceiver-perceived stratification, it follows that the perceiver in turn becomes the perceived by another perceiver, which yet again becomes the object of perception to another. The chain goes on and the Ultimate Perceiver remains unperceivable by any other. It is a fantastic concept I like in Sankara.
While reading something I came across a quote from Plotinus, which is wonderful and says exactly the Perceiver~Perceived theory of Sankara. And it is also current in the circles of Neo-Platonic philosophy, that Plotinus experienced more than once the state of ultimate mystic ecstasy, transcending his self-identity. Here is the quote;
"In this state of absorbed contemplation there is no longer question of holding an object in view; the vision is continuous so that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical; of all that until then filled the eye no memory remains."
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Srirangam V Mohanarangan
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