Does anyone here practice Advaita Vedanta, nonduality? I'd love to discuss it. For some years now I have studied the movement and have been amazed at the beauty and truth in the concepts of Nirguna-Brahman, Avidya/Vidya, Moksha, etc. I used to be a Hare Krishna, but now I try to follow Advaita. Anyone familiar with Advaita? Anyone follow it? Anyone read Adi Shankara and Ramana Maharshi? Tat Tvam Asi, IR
Missed this post. Advaita is very interesting. I like John Levy's interpretation. He learned from Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUxmcCT4YI"]Adi Shankara -Sanskrit Movie(full) - YouTube This didn't really grab me, but you might find it interesting.
Namaste Israel Regardie, After seeing your post, I found this video as saw that your journey from dvaita to advaita being explained in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONGxGm6fExs I found that this is something that alot of seekers face, the shift from dvaita to advaita. And it's always experiential, because sometimes you feel there is duality and sometimes you feel there is non-duality. Being at ease with it, is the most relaxing meditation. Here is another video, look at it and tell me what you feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FueiE00ZjeY
I know a little about Advaita Vedanta. Though I have many questions, since I find it very contradictory, perhaps of our human nature which is dual.
Simply put in Advaita the belief is that everything is God. Dvaita believes god is seperate and we are seperate. I think Visishtadvaita says that god in within everything, and seperate as well. All three philosopies lead to the final, enlightenment, or when man becomes god. Advaita is something to strive for, its lifestyle where you decide to have to see everything as sacred as divine. The father of this is Shiva, as Shiva means causeless auspiciousness. Meaning that he is always in auspiciousness. Our fear and greed make us dual, the goal of advaita is to transend what is known as "human nature" and have divine nature.
Namaste Raaju, It's much more complex than that. In Advaita Vedanta Brahman is the undefined, indescribable, infinite essence of everything. Fear and greed have nothing to do with this, we are in a deep slumber, an illusion. To transcendent this illusion (Maya), you have to realize who you truly are, which is Brahman. It isn't fear and greed which causes this illusion, it is egoism which causes us to see things dual, by self-realization, you transcend this level of illusion, and realize the Absolute-Truth (Brahman). The philosophy of Vishishtadvaita, says that the absolute is ISHVARA, ParaBrahman, which has infinite attributes. While Advaita Vedanta says that when a human finite-mind thinks of Brahman, Brahman is projected as Ishvara. Brahman is attributeless, while Ishvara is of infinite attributes. That's the main argument of the two philosophies, Vishishtadvaita says that Ishvara cannot be known because having infinite attributes cannot be comprehended by the human finite mind. Dvaita is dualism.
