VEDANTIC THOUGHT ... 1

Flawed argument when you say that the Shunyavadi (nihilist in the Indian sense) has to exist to say that he does not exist, for this very existence or non-existence are all in the realm of Maya and make no sense as such. Here logic, phenomenal experience and assertion all fail to affirm or to deny. Words fail. So, silence is or is not. Simplistic interpretations and explanations fail to deliver this essential truth which is only possible to realise by negating all verbal and thought expressions. The Being ever is, although, one may never say so. And who will realise, too, when the Self is ever self-realised and the non-self simply withers away? Thus, Brahman, or call it by whatever name you please, is self-known and none else is there that may know It. The Brahmajnani is, thus, a misnomer for none may know Brahman but may simply cease to know phenomena when the latter ceases to be and the former ever is and remains so, the eternal Presence. The aspirant, thus far phenomenally and, hence, mythically existing, suffers extinction and the dream breaking, the real Self emerges, so to say. The Brahmajnani to be has died just in the penultimate lap and in the final analysis nothing of phenomena remains. Only the Self is. Thus have the scriptures articulated : Brahmavida Brahmaiva bhavati. On return, though, so to say, to the phenomenal world, it is the experience of the bound soul that Brahman is humanly present as the Brahmajnani, although, the latter will never say so being ever established in the Self. He will neither affirm nor deny anything said or done unless he assumes a tinge of the lower Maya whereby he no more for the while remains cognisant of his true Self now can he be said to be Brahmajnani save in error. No wonder such shlokas (verses) as 'Yato vaacho nivartantey apraapya manasaa saha' have been enshrined in the Vedic texts. All said and done it is an impossibility to utter in relational terms anything about this supreme Truth, the Brahman. Even the very name 'Brahman' is non-existent as are sounds and symbols (naamrup). Om!

P.S. Even this little pointer of a comment is fallacious and futile but not fruitless in terms of being productive of wrong words and images signifying something and, so, signifying essentially nothing.