Correct and incorrect, right and wrong, mean the same things. Both are positions of "this verse that", not "neti neti".
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Right or wrong religion?
- Thread starter Spirit of Light
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I think the best way to understand this is that this "cultivation" is really simply the effort one has to make to remove the obstacles to allow what is innate to come to fruition of itself. One does not "achieve", or attain, or reach that which is already fully innate within oneself.
It's like a gardener, removing the rocks and weeds that choke out the plants that grow is our work. But it's not the work that brings life to the plants. We cannot claim we made the corn grow. We didn't. It grew itself. But in our field, in order to produce a good yield, we must tend our gardens. All we are doing is honoring Life itself by clearing the debris in our life which stifles this natural reality that is Life. We value Truth, more than personal gain. The abundance of that field, feeds others through our humility in cultivating a fruitful field in our lives.
Shantanu
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No I do not know that.
Spirit of Light
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You have wise words
Because english is my second language i a not that good in expressing myself, but i do agree with much
Shantanu
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I would not know this as it is a human yogic attainment of advaita (the Ultimate Reality), not the descent of God in a human form.
Shantanu
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Correct means what is true; right means what is morally justified.
Spirit of Light
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You just desided you are God?
How can the Realization of Ultimate Reality exclude God in human form? How can it exclude God from anything that exists at all? If God is used to speak of the Infinite, which is Ultimate Reality, then to make a hole in the middle of it, means God is not infinite. God cannot be a block of swiss cheese, and still be considered God.
Shantanu
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No I went through a process of neti-neti to find the God within me.
I think the terms are interchangeable, but if you prefer this distinction that's fine. Is there an opposite to "correct" then?
And yet now you say that God doesn't exist somewhere? Do you see That which you are, in others as you look at them? Do you recognize the Self in all that exists? Or do you see yourself and God as this over here, and others at that over there?
Shantanu
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Who said that God is a block of cheese or Sun, the Moon, the lion, the insect etc?
Shantanu
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Incorrect.
When you say that God doesn't exist somewhere, you put a hole in the middle of it, like a block of swiss cheese. So the answer to your question is, you did. You said that, in effect.
Shantanu
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God is Paramatman, the rest is Brahman (total energy) that He created.
So there is an opposite to correct then, which is incorrect. This is not "neti neti" which means not this, not that. You are saying "This and not that", which is not neti neti.
Spirit of Light
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What is the difference in a God in "heaven" and a God on earth?
Jollybear
Hey
I somewhat agree. Ill explain using diet.
A person that is sedentairy should eat a low carb diet, while a very active person should eat a high carb diet. So, diet should not be cookie cut for anyone. Everyones diet should be custom to there situation and body type.
Likewise religion and spiritual practice.
Now, this dont mean that there is not an ultimate objective reality that takes into account the whole picture, for i believe there is.
Is God outside creation?
So when an evangelist tries to convert every person they can to their particular religion/denomination/church, they're just as wrong as a dietitian who tells everybody to eat a high carb diet?