Atmananda Krishna Menon: Knowledge of Objects

Though many are aware of Ramana Maharashi and Nisargadatta Maharaj, two pillars of non-dual wisdom of twentieth-century India, very few in the West have been introduced to the work of their contemporary, Shri Atmananda Krishna Menon.

This is unfortunate, because many Westerners are keenly attached to the belief that the world is an independent and 'external' reality. Menon offered a methodical approach to the deconstruction of these beliefs, normally referred to as ignorance. This ignorance is the source of all suffering; this journey holds the key to liberation.

'You know that there is a knowledge which stands knowing this limited
knowledge. Immediately, you turn your attention to it. When you stand as that background knowledge, all the rest disappears and you are left alone in that pure knowledge.

'Just as light has to be present before an object is seen, knowledge is
there as knowledge or awareness, before it appears as the knowledge of an object. The knowledge of an object is changing; but the knowledge before and after the knowledge of an object is changeless, and therefore real.

'Let the knowledge of objects turn your attention to that Reality behind, and you shall soon be established in it.' Atmananda Krishna Menon.

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