People describe the indescribable as emptiness just because some wise men have said it.
That is why Bhagavan Buddha said: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Bhagavan Buddha said:~ Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you, yourself test and judge to be true.
Sage Sankara says in the commentary in Vedanta sutra that what is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.
Seekers of truth should not believe blindly in Orthodox Advaita without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning over and over again without getting tired of the process.
When one says "emptiness is" what is the meaning of "is"? "Emptiness” is something that exists: one cannot prove that consciousness does not exist.
First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (8) ~ Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.
It is not you who has to become empty. It is the invisible Soul, the Self that has to become empty of ignorance.
Emptiness is the nondual nature of the invisible Soul, the Self. Emptiness is the invisible Soul itself. Emptiness is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time and space.
There is unity in diversity in emptiness. There is oneness in emptiness. When the Soul, the innermost Self, remains in its own awareness then there is emptiness.
When there is no ignorance, then there is emptiness. When there is no dualistic illusion, then there is emptiness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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