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  1. anadi

    Karma and acting

    Hello dear friends! A few days ago, while watching David Lynch's movie Inland Empire, an interesting thought apperead in my awareness. This film is very interesting and confusing until you start to understand and put the pieces together. The story involves a movie star getting a role in what is...
  2. anadi

    reincarnation differences

    Oh, the intellectual gymnastics, as Swami Sivananda would say. Why can't some poeple understand that you can't describe a non-dual philosophy without logical contradictions because language can only work within duality?
  3. anadi

    reincarnation differences

    Yes, phenomena lack selfhood. But does that mean there is no self beyond phenomena? Isn't the emptiness on which phenomena is projected our true self? I'm not quite sure what is meant here by self... does it mean the ego? (in this case ok, the ego is illusory) or something transcendent like in...
  4. anadi

    reincarnation differences

    Can you give a reference to this no-atman doctrine? As far as I know the Buddha didn't reject the atman only rejected the identification of atman with the five aggregates. So it's actually not-atman, not no-atman that is meant by anatman. Is it not so?
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    10-day Vipassana course experiences

    Thanks for all the info. I haven't decided where I will be taking the course (if at all), but probably i'm going to do it in Lutirano, Firenze, Italy. Vipassana
  6. anadi

    10-day Vipassana course experiences

    Hello I'm thinking about attending a 10-day Vipassana course this summer, but i'm not sure if i'm ready. I'm afraid it might be too difficult for me at this time, so to clear my doubts I would like to hear your views and experiences about the 10-day Vipassana course. I would also like to know...
  7. anadi

    An interesting Vaishnavite perspective on Liberation

    Well yeah, actually I was saying that. That's how it seems to me. He calls the mayavadis rascals, and he also calls Advaitists mayavadis so...
  8. anadi

    An interesting Vaishnavite perspective on Liberation

    The idea that a man is God has nothing to do with Advaita in my opinion. Advaita doesn't teach that we are God in the sense that our personality and ego are God. It teaches that everything is God, all our deepest selves, not that we are all Avatars. So this idea of somebody thinking that he is...
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    An interesting Vaishnavite perspective on Liberation

    I agree that it's nice to have different options for liberation, suitable for different kinds of people with different desires. Hinduism indeed offers different options to different needs or wishes of aspirants. But what I find disturbing is that some people (even gurus) categorize others...
  10. anadi

    Basic principles of Advaita Vedanta?

    Yes it's non-dualism (a - not; dva - two; therefore Advaita - not-twoness, non-duality). There is Atman as well as Brahman, but in reality they are the same. Atman is a drop, Brahman is the ocean, but both are water. Reincarnation is involved, the Jivatman (individual soul/self/living entity)...
  11. anadi

    What is the highest authority for Jains?

    Jain God? I thought Jains don't believe in God, only in souls? Could you elaborate on Jain God?
  12. anadi

    Hinduism Literature

    or check out swami sivananda's All About Hinduism, he describes all the schools of philosophy briefly and much more
  13. anadi

    brahman vs. nirvana

    The Self is the Reality. Pure consciousness, the ineffable, changless, eternal, underlying substratum of all phenomena. Or in buddhist terminology: Primordial Mind, Pure Buddha Mind, etc. Realization of this Reality is Nirvana. But these are all just words for that which is ineffable.
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    brahman vs. nirvana

    Jnana yoga or the yoga of knowledge is the most direct and simple, but probably the hardest method for knowing the Reality. It isn't suitable for most poeple, especially in this age when our abilities and energies are so dispersed among worldly activities. Jnana yoga requires a huge amount of...
  15. anadi

    Vaikuntha/Goloka source?

    Experience indicates a duality of experiencer and experienced, so strictly speaking it cannot be experienced, nor percieved, one can only be That.
  16. anadi

    Vaikuntha/Goloka source?

    Dear axlyz, He is very luminious, without form; He is both without and within; unborn, without Prana, without mind, pure, and greater than the great Indestructible one. (Mundaka Upanishad 2.1.2.) How can there be personality without form and mind? He is not grasped by the eye, nor by speech...
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    Vaikuntha/Goloka source?

    There are also impersonal descriptions in the scriptures, mostly in the Upanishads + personal experiences of saints who have known this impersonal infinitude, not only in Hinduism, but in all major world religions. What do you think nirvana is other than merging with Brahman? Or what the still...
  18. anadi

    Vaikuntha/Goloka source?

    Thanks, I read it, but I'm not sure what is your point?
  19. anadi

    Vaikuntha/Goloka source?

    I find Ramanuja's description a bit confusing. I can't help but disagree with you, to me it seems that he is describing the Impersonal Absolute, the pure Self abiding in Itself. However he goes on to say that Narayana/Krishna is even beyond that and has control over the soul, thus Saguna Brahman...
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    Hari Om

    Hari Om
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