Nice post of Lakshmana Swami. Along a similar vein from Dasbodh of
Samartha Ramdas:

34. As for "Brahman with Attributes," (Saguna Brahman) it is clearly
evident to the eye
that all attributes are destructible. Thus, no additional proof is
required to know
that Saguna Brahman is definitely not Eternal.
35. Now, as for that which is named as "Attributeless
Brahman" (Nirguna Brahman),
what can be understood to be the relevance of such a name? How can one
come to
know of something, or speak about something without first bringing to
mind some
attributes?
36. It is said that Illusion is like a mirage or an imaginary cloud
that never existed.
37. If there is no town, how can there be any question of boundaries?
Without birth,
how can there be any individual being? Likewise, how can similes that
are dualistic
really ever tell about non-duality?
38. How can there be any such thing as Illusion without "Power," or
objects without
the "Knower," or a state of inertia without the "Life-Energy"?
39. Power, Life-Energy, and Witness all have attributes. How can that
which is without
attributes be like that which is with attributes?
40. It is said that Brahman is attributeless, but you should
understand that this
indication is also only a name which is impermanent. There is no doubt
about this.
41. The word attributeless is an indication of Brahman. Many such
names are given to
it, but one should understand that "Attributeless Brahman" is only a
description in
speech, and speech is destructible.
42. The experience of bliss is a feeling that is a personal state or
attitude of mind. In
the completeness of Brahman, there is no place for a personal state.
43. Brahman is indescribable, so indicating that it is a particular
attitude or state has its
shortcomings, as no mental attitude can be applicable to it.
44. To say that it is indescribable is indicative that it is without
any attitude, which is
the same as to say that it is the state of no-mind (unmani). It is the
resting place of
the yogis who are untainted by any identification.
45. Reality is that which is not represented by any identification. It
is itself the
effortless and "natural samadhi" (Sahaja Samadhi) where the suffering
of worldly
life is non-existent.
46. That which is the end of identification is itself the "Final
Understanding." It is the
confirmed Truth of Vedanta, the Self-experience of the Self.
47. Like this, Brahman is Eternal, without any trace of the delusion
of Illusion. The
experienced understand the secret of Self-experience.
48. By discarding concepts from one's experience, one gains the
satisfaction of this
Self-experience.
49. If one must imagine something, one should try to imagine that
which is
unimaginable (inconceivable) and in this way, the imagination is
destroyed
naturally. Then, "be" without being any thing, as epochs pass away.


The mind and the death of the mind are only concepts as well. The lack
of identification with concepts is Self without self. The concept of
killing the mind makes what is ultimately the most simple seem complex
and difficult.

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