Swami Dayananda Saraswati:
1) The wave being not independent of water, you don’t have to remove the waves in order to see the water. So too, if the thinker, the thought, and what is thought of ( ध्याता ध्यान ध्येय) are dependent upon the ātmā (आत्मा, the self) , which is the reality of all three, you don’t have to remove any of them to recognize the ātmā. The recognition is that all three are ātmā, while ātmā is not any of them.
2) There are two types of problems in life, one is a problem for which the solution lies outside the problem, the other is a problem for which the solution is within the very problem. If the solution is contained in the problem and it is still a “problem”’, the problem is purely due to ignorance. The problem is caused by the ignorance of a fact and therefore we have a problem instead of a fact. The knowledge of the fact alone solves such a problem.
