Guest guest Posted January 12, 2000 Report Share Posted January 12, 2000 pkenny > In particular we can bring ourselves to the realization > that all of our thoughts, feelings and actions > are thought, felt and acted by God through us (so you can see why I don't > share > the Vedantist perspective on Karma). For Spinoza, God Nature and > Man are all the same thing (no dualist he!) > > Namaste That's interesting. May I know in what way is the above different from the view of Advaita Vedanta? Please elaborate. A million thanks. Om Shanti Kathi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 14, 2000 Report Share Posted January 14, 2000 On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, K Kathirasan ADM NCS wrote: > K Kathirasan ADM NCS <kathirasan > > pkenny > > > In particular we can bring ourselves to the realization > > that all of our thoughts, feelings and actions > > are thought, felt and acted by God through us (so you can see why I don't > > share > > the Vedantist perspective on Karma). For Spinoza, God Nature and > > Man are all the same thing (no dualist he!) > > > > > Namaste > > That's interesting. May I know in what way is the above different > from the view of Advaita Vedanta? Please elaborate. A million thanks. > > Om Shanti > Kathi > namaste. It is nice to be back on the List again. I notice that I have missed a very interesting discussion on the reality or otherwise of free-will. I will try to catch up with the posts in the next few days. This post refers to Patrick's original post (quoted above) and Kathirasan's query arising out of that. I am not sure if the above can be justified to its conclusion in advaita. In vyavahArika (worldly), action is real and action is done by the human. The God has (in all liklihood) pre-decided what action the human will take, but still the action (here, the action includes physical action, thought and any modification (vr^tti) of antahkaraNa, the internal sense organ) is done by the human. We cannot ascribe the action to God. God is with all good attributes and I am not sure if such a God can be held to be performing some of the actions the humans perform (in a vyavahArika understanding). In paramArtha (absolute), there is no jeeva, no God, no action. The only reality is the Absolute, the Consciousness, the actionless brahman. Thus I am not sure if there is a stage in the understanding where action that we perform can be ascribed as done by the God. I will be grateful for further clarifications/comments. Regards Gummuluru Murthy ------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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