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pure consciousness is not bliss? is not nirguna brahman?
unconditional love isn't the same yesterday, today, tomorrow?
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Love is the greatest mystery of all.
allahu akabar!!!!
brahman is unconditional love.
Aham brahmasmi
allahu akabar!!!!
brahman is unconditional love.
Aham brahmasmi
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I'd say bliss is a quality, and love implies a subject-object duality.
unfortunately nirguna brahman is explained that way.
love is like that. it doesn't change but itself changes things.
What way, and by whom?
the irony
Sankara’s theory is that one is left with the pure essence of Brahman, which is Nirguna, or without attributes. Anantanand Rambachan explains this complex relationship by simply stating that “Isvara is related to the world and defined through that relationship, whereas nirguna brahman is brahman-in-itself and beyond all definitions” (Rambachan 14).
unconditional love is like like that. the greatest mystery and beyond definition.
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Do you know what Īśvara is? Īśvara is the reflection of Brahman on maya when a human mind tries to understand Brahman. That's why people think of Brahman as 'God'.
yes, like christians try to think of the lord as god and they aren't exactly the same thing. unfortunately neither is the manifestation of love and love itself. an infinite something can't have attributes but we attempt to understand it and define it from a limited viewpoint.
fyi humans use the term brahman no different than another uses the term god, or love. we give it a name to understand and discuss an indefinite thing.
giving it a name doesn't mean we own it, unfortunately many believe they do.
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According to the Bible they are.
Well, Brahman is satcitānanda, "existence, consciousness, and bliss".
Satchitananda (IAST: Satcitānanda) or Sacchidānanda representing "existence, consciousness, and bliss"[1][2] or "truth, consciousness, bliss",[3] is an epithet and description for the subjective experience of the ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism called Brahman.[4][5][note 1] Satcitananda - Wikipedia
Right, which is what Īśvara is.
yes i understand all of that with the exception of the bible saying anything. again peoples subjective experience of an infinite no thing is not definitive. if it helps the believer to feel in control, that is fine.
but whether i use the term god, or brahman, isn't relative except to the culture; in which the idea is being understood and then expressed.
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