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Re: Siva as yogi
On Mon, 8 Jan 1996 23:41:00 -0500 (EST), Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
<rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>Well, there are no perishable jivatmas either. If a jivatma exists, it must
>either be him or for a period of it's existence be something other than him. So
>the quotation you have given cannot be reconciled with perishable jivatmas,
>unless the perishable jivatmas are a delusion (like the rope mistaken for a
>snake, so on and so forth). A jivatma is a delusion and hence perishable. You
>are almost there Ken, you'll become an Advaitin in a short while :-).
Not likely. :-)
There are certain problems with Advaita (as a philosophical system).
Kashmir Shaivism, instead of basing its system on Being as the
fundamental unit, rather bases it on Consciousness (Awareness), which
resolves the odd contradictions that the various strands of Vedanta
have been trying to resolve for centuries.
Here is another quote from Mark S.G. Dyczkowski, as a small example:
"The [Advaita] Vedantin, who maintains that non-duality is the true
nature of the absolute by rejecting duality as only provisionally
real, is ultimately landed in a dualism between the real and illusory
by the foolishness of his own excessive sophistry (vacatadurvidya).
Oneness is better understood as the coextensive unity (ekarasa) of
both duality and unity. They are equally expressions of the
absolute."
Cheers,
Ken
kstuart@snowcrest.net
"The ego arises from the mistaken notion that the light of consciousness
reflected in the intellect and coloured by objectively perceived phenomena
is the true nature of the Self. Thus, the personal ego falsely identifies
the Self with that which is not the Self and vice versa." - Mark Dyczkowski
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