Greetings good beings,
If one subscribes to God being within the universe and the universe being simultaneously within God, does this fall within one of the above? Or, is this a hybrid of the two?
best,
swampy
It is almost like air in all things and all things in air. So that is Panentheism IMO. The reality is meshed in the sensual universe yet is transcendental to the universe.
Apparently, Panentheism is duality or dvaita. But this is not correct. When one considers that the reality is meshed in the universe, then it is only a subset of panentheism and is equal to pantheism or visistaadvaita of hinduism. However, in this scheme of things, the immutabilty of the reality cannot be maintained.
Panentheism is dvaita in the sense that the transcendental reality and the discrete effects are different. However, scriptures exhort us to know the transcendental reality, which is defined as immutable, without a second, without consciousness of inner and outer,
and as the Self. With such an exhortation, it is not possible to know the truth as a localised second being. One cannot know the Self as another. One cannot know that which is one without a second as a second.
So, at this level, advaita darshana comes in. In hinduism, these are three steps of Vishnu that encompass the whole. Some, however, do take these three steps as competing with each other.