Advaita and Dvaita

[Guest guest]

>From a talk by Vivekananda.

 

This tendency in religion is most harmful. A man gets a new and

better idea. and then he looks back on those he has given up, and

forthwith decides that they were mischievous and unnecessary. He

never thinks that, however crude they may appear from his present

point of view, they were very useful to him, that they were necessary

for him to reach his present state, and that everyone of us has to

grow in a similar fashion, living first on crude ideas, taking

benefit from them, and then arriving at a higher standard. With the

oldest theories, therefore, the Advaita is friendly. Dualism and all

systems that had preceded it are accepted by the Advaita not in a

patronizing way, but with the conviction that they are true

manifestations of the same truth, and that they all lead to the same

conclusions as the Advaita has reached.

 

Commentary:-

This acceptance of all phases of spiritual development

is the trademark of the broad hearted teachings of

Sri Ramakrishna.

[Guest guest]

advaitin, "Vivekananda Centre" <vivekananda@b...> wrote:

>

> From a talk by Vivekananda.

>

> This tendency in religion is most harmful. A man gets a new and

> better idea. and then he looks back on those he has given up, and

> forthwith decides that they were mischievous and unnecessary. He

> never thinks that, however crude they may appear from his present

> point of view, they were very useful to him, that they were

necessary

> for him to reach his present state, and that everyone of us has to

> grow in a similar fashion, living first on crude ideas, taking

> benefit from them, and then arriving at a higher standard. With the

> oldest theories, therefore, the Advaita is friendly. Dualism and

all

> systems that had preceded it are accepted by the Advaita not in a

> patronizing way, but with the conviction that they are true

> manifestations of the same truth, and that they all lead to the

same

> conclusions as the Advaita has reached.

 

 

Oh, very nice.

 

This reminds me of how Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has said that:

 

Knowledge is structured in Consciousness.

 

and

 

Knowledge is different in different states of Consciousness.

 

 

Colette

>

> Commentary:-

> This acceptance of all phases of spiritual development

> is the trademark of the broad hearted teachings of

> Sri Ramakrishna.

[Guest guest]

tbw61 raised the following question:

 

I am fairly new to these topics.I am wondering if anyone would

kindly

direct me to any place on the internet which would have a good

description of the difference between the advaita position of Ramana

Maharishi and Aurobindo and the Dvaita philosophy expounded here in

the US by the ISKCON and other Bhakti yoga devotees

-

 

Dear tbw61,

May I draw your attention to six web pages of mine starting from:

 

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/gohitvip/71.html

 

The first one talks about the non-absolutist schools (which are the

schools other than the advaita school).

The second page ( .../72.html) dwells on the Adavita school and the

message of one-ness.

The third one ( .../73.html ) deals with the topic: Vision of

Equanimity and Practical Non-duality

The fourth one ( ..74.html) treats the question of the differences

among the different schools and is titled: Difference and

Non-difference.

The fifth one (... 75.html) is on Descent of Grace, and is applicable

to all the schools.

The sixth one ( http://www.geocities.com/profvk/TheSelf.html) is a

special one on The Self as per the advaita school and is in a chart

form.

 

PraNAms to all advaitins

profvk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

My website on Science and Spirituality is http://www.geocities.com/profvk/

You can access my book on Gems from the Ocean of Hindu Thought Vision and

Practice, and my father R. Visvanatha Sastri's manuscripts from the site.

 

 

 

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