Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self by Ferrante Marco;

Author:Ferrante, Marco;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2020-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

I think all this is sufficient to show how deep was the impact on Pratyabhijñā’s philosophy of the doctrines elaborated by Bhartṛhari. One can even go as far as to ask what the Śaiva thinkers added to Bhartṛhari’s picture. Leaving aside their theological consideration, I think they supplemented this basic scheme with two main contributions: the first and by far most important is the stress on the apparently mysterious notion that vimarśa, that is, higher-order representations, have a savouring. The Śaivas are referring with it to the fact that conscious experience has a subjective, phenomenal, ‘what it is like to be’ dimension—a ‘savouring’ in their words—which is difficult to account for in terms of mental representations and which can be addressed only metaphorically, an aspect that in Bhartṛhari does not seem to emerge. The second point is the Śaivas’ tendency to espouse a much more radical version of non-dualism, developing the ideas that cognitions always entail an awareness of the knowing subject and that external objects have the same nature as mind or consciousness. We analyze all these questions thoroughly in the following chapters.

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