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Jnanadeva and the Warkari Movement/Prof. Dr. Fred Dallmayr
Note 13
..."if the extinguisher of a light is extinguished along with the light, who knows that there is no light?"
Amritanubhava. IV, 25-28. Bahirat is one of those ascribing a "nihilistic" outlook to
Madhyamika Buddhism. As he writes: "Nagarjun was the propounder of nihilism and his philosophy is neither idealism nor realism nor absolutism but blank phenomenalism which
only accepts the phenomenal world as it is but without any kind of essence, ground or reality behind it." Curiously, despite h is perceptive reading of Jnanadeva's comments on
sat-chit-ananda, Bahirat persists in using these terms as essential descriptors, saying: "Reality is pure existence, pure knowledge, and pure bliss. This is the positive description
of reality." See The Philosophy of Jnanadeva, pp. 41, 43.
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