ON EXPERIENCE

The word anubhava in most books is translated as experience in many vedanta books, which is wrong.in sanskrit anubhava is direct knowledge.experience does'nt convey this meaning.any experience does'nt give knowledge.Any mental condition caused by sense perception or memory can be called experience, but one need not have knowledge of what is experienced.for eg---pain is one's experience but the knowledge of pain implies it's origin also.one may see a object outside without knowing what it is. seeing is no doubt an experience but knowing is totally difft.When u say Atmanubava  it's not an experience.  for if u say self is to be experienced, then it means that self is not within the field of one's experience and has to be experienced by special means.If the self is consciousness can the experiencer be independent of consciousness.The experiencer is the self, while self is not just the  expeiencer.This ever present consciousness exists even if u ,experience or not experience.Vedanta says duality exists because of superimposition of experience upon the self consciousness.This recognition is ATMANUBAVA.