(Continued...)
This ‘experience’ of Brahman of the act of
recognizing itself has a technical name in Vedanta. It is ‘parAhantA’. ‘ahantA’ is the thought ‘I am’. When we
wrongly think that our real ‘I’ is body-mind-intellect, it is called ‘ahantA’ -
the word derived from ‘ahaM’.
When the supreme Absolute, which is the origin of
all the ‘aham’s in the world, thinks of itself as ‘I’ it is supreme ‘ahantA’,
that is, para-ahantA. In devotional
literature, it is customary to call parAShakti the parAhantA form of ShivaM and thus arises the
name ‘parAhantA-svarUpiNI’ for ambaal.
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