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Allama Prabhu claimed enlightenment is a mirror eating itself

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Trying to explain the ultimate realization of the universe usually involves terrible metaphors, but this one actually rules. The 12th-century poet Allama Prabhu described the peak of inner understanding as being exactly like 'a mirror looking at a mirror, eating itself.' It perfectly captures the utter collapse of the observer and the observed into absolute, dazzling nothingness.

Allama Prabhu claimed enlightenment is a mirror eating itself
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