How can the Cognitive Faculty, the Supreme Knower of the mind, become the object of knowledge in the practical field? The fact is that when the first stage of mind, or the existential “I”, thinks of the subject “I” of “I know”, its existence becomes subtler than the subtlest, and then finally merges into the Cognitive Faculty – Mádhava Mádhava anukhan sumari Rádhiká Mádhava bhelii – “Rádhiká [Rádhá] while constantly remembering Mádhava [Krśńa] became Mádhava Himself”.

So we clearly understand that to know the Cognitive Faculty means to merge in It. It is like a salt doll trying to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process becoming one with the ocean itself; it could not return and tell others the story of how it felt while fathoming the ocean. This sort of becoming one with the ocean while trying to fathom it is termed “self-knowledge”.