Guest guest Posted April 2, 2001 Report Share Posted April 2, 2001 Dennis Waite wrote: > Just another brief thought that occurred to me yesterday on this subject. > Regarding claims that an Advaitin must also be a Hindu - is it not the case > that Hindus believe in reincarnation whereas the Advaitin acknowledges that > there is no such thing as reincarnation (for no one was ever born or died in > the first place)? > > Dennis The Pure Consciousness Atman / Universal Self ( which according to advaita is the same as Brahman ) does not undergo birth and death. But when it appears as a Jivaatama / individual self , tenanting a body-mind complex,it is under the spell of ego consciousness. When the body dies, the jivaatama , along with ego , is reborn in another body. This repetitive cycle of birth and death continues until the jivaatama gets out of the spell of the ego. This cycle is beginning-less (anaadi). The question "when was it born in the first place ? " has no answer. The cycle ends with mokshha. This is the advaita view, as I understand it. The concept of re-incarnation is not rejected by advaita. V.M.Sundaram > > > > Discussion of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of nonseparablity of Atman and Brahman. > Advaitin List Archives available at: http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ > Please Note the New Changes at the Mail Server > For details, visit: /local/news.html > Post message: advaitin > Subscribe: advaitin- > Un: advaitin > URL to Advaitin: advaitin > File folder: advaitin > Link Folder: advaitin/links > Messages Folder: advaitin/messages > > > > Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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