Questions about:: Realization in Advaita from a no traditional scholary view

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> Hmm. If only Sri Sankara or Sri Patanjali had known this "secret"

> path - They wouldn't have had to spend their lifetime doing what

they

> did!

This is an "open secret" for a few ones, those in with this

understanding happen.For the others Sri Sankara and Sri Pantajali

spend his lifetime.

> Reminds me again of the story I posted a few days earlier that Sri

> Vidyaranya often quotes. An award was announced for someone who had

> mastered all the four vedas. A person stuck his hand up and said he

> deserves the award because he knows that the vedas are four in

> number!.

This story have not aplication in the non-duality realization.This

story apply to the ones that belief that "intellectual understanding"

bring realization.

> If it was all so easy why does Lord Krishna says " Rare is he who

> knows Vasudeva is all" and " fructifies after lifetimes of effort",

> why would Katha Upanishad describe the path is like a "Razors'

edge",

> why does Sri Patanjali talk about "deergha kale" practice for a

long

> time, why does Gaudapada advocate effort akin to emptying an ocean

> with the blade of a grass

>

> so on and on..

Please check my last post about divide of spiritual aspirant into

three classes according to their capacy to receive and apprehend the

teaching of non-duality.For a few as you say is easy but not for all

aspirants,thats why Sri Pantanjali and Gaudapada describe practices

and a path.

regards

ATAGRASIN