The genuine meaning of Tathagata in doctrine...................or, correcting the lies and BS with the teachings themselves
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Correcting one of the many lies of modern ‘Buddhism’
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The Tathagata, pronounced: “Taaht-ahgatah”, in the common
nonsensical definition by ignorant modern “Buddhism” is meant “thus
come one”, or “thus gone one”. This view ignorantly implies a formal
appellation of importance (such as Sir, Master, Great-One, etc.)
rather than a denotation of a profound spiritual attainment.
The term Tathagata is composed of two parts, Tat, and agata. Tat
has been since time immemorial in India, meant Brahman, the Absolute,
as in the famous Upanishadic dictum: “That (Brahman) thou art” (tat
tvam asi). “That” is here, of course Brahman, the Godhead, the Subject
of Selfhood which the muni, or sage, has reached at the pinnacle of
his having fulfilled wisdom’s perfection. Agata is the past tense
denotation of gata (going, traveling, trekking), here being meant
“arrival, gone-unto, attainment of, arrival-at”. As such, Tathagata in
the ancient Prakrit Pali, is meant literally “(The sage who has)
arrived at the Absolute”, or in Sramanic context of Vedanta and
Buddhism, “(He-thou) is (arrived at) That”. The very term Tathagata,
which has of yet never been discovered by anyone until now, is none
other than a personal appellation of that very rare someone who has
realized by wisdom “tat tvam asi”. The Tathagata, therefore, is
equally as well meant “The ‘tat tvam asi’ comprehensor/sage”.
It is unfathomable that modern so-called Buddhism’s position is
that the spiritual appellation of the Buddha’s attainment, “attained/
arrived at Brahman” (Tathagata) is merely an honorary designation for
a popular sage. As [It 57] and other passages clearly show, “become-
Brahman” is the meaning of the term Tathagata, or he who has arrived
(agata), again being meant the transfiguration and assimilation of the
mind (citta) in upon itself (bhava), and thereby achieving the
Absolute, i.e. Brahman, as such (brahmabhutam tathagata) is said. To
say that Tathagata, is meant by nonsensical “Buddhism”, to the effect:
that Tathagata denotes the “thus-come one”, or “thus-gone one” has no
contextual validity, is utterly illogical to read Pali as such, and
carries no meaning whatsoever, which is all the more so magnified
given that the very term Tathagata carries, regardless of translation,
a very weighty importance and denotation; thereby secular ‘Buddhism’
intends to castrate the meaning of the term Tathagata, is yet another
resection of original Buddhism by modern sects to turn Buddhism into a
moralistic movement devoid of metaphysics.
Scriptural collaboration of same: (Tathagatassa hetam,
adhivacanam brahmabhuto itipi)-“The Tathagata means 'the body of
Brahman', 'become Brahman'” [DN 3.84]. (brahmabhutam
tathagata)-“Become-Brahman is the meaning of Tathagata” [It 57]. Many
more such passages are preset in suttana.
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