--- In [email protected], "WillyTex" <willytex@...> wrote: > > > > > > Isn't it more accurately summarized as "everything > > > has a physical level, consciousness is correlated > > > with brain functioning"? Metaphysically that's a > > > big difference... > > > > authfriend: > > Correlation does not imply causation. But he was > > explicit that consciousness is caused by ("is the > > product of") brain functioning. And "is physical" is > > not the same as "has a physical level." > > > Somebody got really mixed up! According to the author > of Brahma Sutras, Badarayana, "Brahman is what everything > comes from." So, for the Vedanta, Consciousness is a > product of Brahman. Pure consciousness is the Being, the > Brahman itself, not an object of cognition.
Yes, as I went on to say (and you snipped): > He may have "really meant" something more like your summary, > but that just ain't what he actually said in that statement. > I suspect, in light of the rest of his teaching, that he > inadvertently overstated his point in the two sentences > between the asterisks. > > Janmadyasya yatah I.1.2 (2) (Brahman is that) from which > the origin etc., (i.e. the origin, sustenance and > dissolution) of this (world proceed). > > 'Brahma Sutras' > By Swami Sivananda > http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/bs_1/1-1-02.html >
