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#Advaita #Vedanta of #Hinduism,the pinnacle of #Hindu philosophical thought, proclaims “Ekameva Advitiyam Brahma”(There is only One without a second).The Infinite, the Absolute Reality (Brahman),cannot be divided into creator and created, for division implies limitation
#Advaita #Vedanta of #Hinduism,the pinnacle of #Hindu philosophical thought, proclaims “Ekameva Advitiyam Brahma”(There is only One without a second).The Infinite, the Absolute Reality (Brahman),cannot be divided into creator and created, for division implies limitation
and limitation contradicts infinitude.
What we perceive as creation, multiplicity, or individuality is only due to MAYA, the mysterious power that projects the One as the many, without ever truly altering the substratum.
Why then the world is spooked by Hinduism,the reasons
What we perceive as creation, multiplicity, or individuality is only due to MAYA, the mysterious power that projects the One as the many, without ever truly altering the substratum.
Why then the world is spooked by Hinduism,the reasons
are historical, cultural, and psychological, not philosophical:
1. #SanatanaDharma defies exclusivity.
Most world religions are built on duality, a personal God distinct from creation and the soul, and a clear line between believer and non-believer.
Advaita’s assertion that
1. #SanatanaDharma defies exclusivity.
Most world religions are built on duality, a personal God distinct from creation and the soul, and a clear line between believer and non-believer.
Advaita’s assertion that
everything is divine and all paths lead to the same truth undermines rigid religious hierarchies. It is too vast, too inclusive, to be “owned” or systematized and hence, unsettling to exclusivist systems.
2. Its subtlety challenges the intellect.
Advaita’s vision of the
2. Its subtlety challenges the intellect.
Advaita’s vision of the
Absolute-nirguna, without qualities, formless, eternal, pure, conscious, free, cannot be captured by conceptual thought.
Modern science, being empirical, is uncomfortable with that which transcends subject-object cognition.
Western philosophy, too, stops at dualistic
Modern science, being empirical, is uncomfortable with that which transcends subject-object cognition.
Western philosophy, too, stops at dualistic
rationalism. Hence, they often misread it as mysticism rather than metaphysics.
3. It dissolves power structures.
The doctrine of Oneness renders meaningless all divisions of race, class, or religion. The Upanishadic idea that “Aham Brahmāsmi” (I am Brahman or Infinite) places
3. It dissolves power structures.
The doctrine of Oneness renders meaningless all divisions of race, class, or religion. The Upanishadic idea that “Aham Brahmāsmi” (I am Brahman or Infinite) places
the humblest individual on par with the highest deity.
Historically, such egalitarian spiritual insight threatened political and religious establishments built on authority &control.
4. MAYA unsettles material certainty.
To the scientific and materialist mindset, calling
Historically, such egalitarian spiritual insight threatened political and religious establishments built on authority &control.
4. MAYA unsettles material certainty.
To the scientific and materialist mindset, calling
the phenomenal universe “unreal” is heretical for it implies that empirical observation is not ultimate truth. But Advaita doesn’t deny the world; it relativizes it. It says the world is real as appearance, but not as absolute existence.
5. It bridges #science and #spirituality, yet transcends both.
Hindu seers saw consciousness as the ground of existence centuries before modern quantum physics began questioning objectivity.
But because Hinduism doesn’t separate metaphysics from inner realization, it
Hindu seers saw consciousness as the ground of existence centuries before modern quantum physics began questioning objectivity.
But because Hinduism doesn’t separate metaphysics from inner realization, it
requires self-transformation, not just intellectual understanding. That demand for inner evolution makes it inaccessible to those seeking mere theoretical comfort.
The world is awed & unsettled by the depth of #hinduism. It invites the seeker to go beyond belief into direct
The world is awed & unsettled by the depth of #hinduism. It invites the seeker to go beyond belief into direct
experience. And that journey from multiplicity to UNITY, from appearance to essence is not for the faint-hearted.
Advaita #Vedanta and modern #physics almost meet, though the Hindu seers reached there through PURE CONSCIOUSNESS rather than instruments.
#Christianity #Islam
Advaita #Vedanta and modern #physics almost meet, though the Hindu seers reached there through PURE CONSCIOUSNESS rather than instruments.
#Christianity #Islam
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