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My feeling is that this is not to do with personal/impersonal, except in the sense that these would also be two aspects of the Absolute rather than what it is in itself.
Is not the the idea that the Absolute has an inside and an outside logically incoherent? It seems that way to me. Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy has a good section on this so I'll go remind myself what he says.
I think superposition is not quite the right way to look at this. The Absolute simply does not have these properties. For the writers of the Upanishads the 'Absolute' has all properties and no properties, which is confusing. It is just a question of how we conceive of it. (Here again the good old 'wave-particle' serves as an analogy.)
Is not the the idea that the Absolute has an inside and an outside logically incoherent? It seems that way to me. Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy has a good section on this so I'll go remind myself what he says.
I think superposition is not quite the right way to look at this. The Absolute simply does not have these properties. For the writers of the Upanishads the 'Absolute' has all properties and no properties, which is confusing. It is just a question of how we conceive of it. (Here again the good old 'wave-particle' serves as an analogy.)
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