the point of it all

[Guest guest]

Dear Dennis,

 

You may rememeber that we corresponded in the past. I was never able

to make a secret of my heretical tendencies when participating on the

advaitin list and I eventually ceased to take an active part when it

was suggested that I ought to find my self a guru. I was of course

extremely interested (and I confess not a little amused) by your

heartfelt exclamation about the point of it all (i.e. Advaita).

 

The passage below (from your message) seems to me to be a succint

statement of how things are: there is no free-will, no soul, no sin,

no karma and no reincarnation. (And I might add that consciousness is

just an epiphenomenon of matter although of course I know you won't

agree with that statement.) What puzzles me is that you seem feel that

there is something that you are missing ('self-realization') as if an

honest appraisal of the way things are leads inescapably to nihilism

and despair....

 

Regards,

Patrick

 

 

There is no individual who could become realised.

There is no 'path' that can be followed.

We cannot 'do' anything.

There is no such thing as choice or free will, only

the illusion of this;

everything that will happen is effectively already

determined. We act

irrevocably according to our natures and events

around us.

There is no one who could die (only the material

body reverting to its

elements) and there is no one who could be born or

re-born. There can be no

such thing as reincarnation.