The Infinite Library of Borges and the Silent Intuition of Shankara.

On the Limits of Reason and Language.

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In his extraordinary short story "The Library of Babel", Jorge Luis Borges describes an infinite library containing every possible combination of letters and symbols within uniform books. This vast, labyrinthine library is a metaphor for the universe and represents humanity's aspiration to categorize all possible knowledge. However, although it contains everything that can be expressed in language and symbols, most of the library's texts are completely meaningless.

The librarians inhabiting it are constantly desperately searching for a book that will reveal the ultimate meaning of existence, but they cannot find it among the innumerable chaotic and indecipherable tomes. This vision profoundly evokes the Vedantic concept of "neti neti", or "not this, not this", formulated by the 8th-century philosopher Adi Shankara.