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The Great Arguments
You wait through a long clause understanding nothing definite, and then it lands whole, and you could not say which syllable delivered it.
Bhartrhari's claim is that you cannot have a thought without language, and that language is what the world is made of.
Not that language tells you about the world. That it is the world. The highest thing is shabda-brahman, the Word as the absolute. And all else is that Word taking shapes.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.