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THE UNKNOWN*
Cogito Ergo Sum so said Descartes. “I think therefore I am” is what he said. This was his answer to the argument that there is no proof of existence for any thing as everything we say we know is only an idea we have of that thing. He argued that while all this may be true, we cannot question the existence of the questioner or we cannot ignore the existence of the doubter who doubts. Master in his book Philosophy of Sahaj Marg stated “Now let the atheist be faced with the question as to what exists. A consistent agnostic can doubt and deny the existence of everything but not his own self. Viz. that which doubts or denies.”(wuf. 11) We thus through inference seem to know our self. What this self however remains Unknown.
Master further stated that God does not have mind and obviously He cannot think. On the face of
* Talk Delivered at the Seminar on 22nd June 2008
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