re Gita Satsangh

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Greetings Advaitins All,

Supernatural Reality:

Can the findings of science give any comfort to religion? Can any

experience whatever confirm or deny in a public objective way religious

doctrines from any quarter, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist etc.? Is not

doctrine like a projection, or the imaginative picturing of what is remote

and mysterious, perhaps based upon the vision of a sage or the cumulative

scrying of a lineage developed over the ages. It is a way of bringing what

is far away close, to render intelligible what is really inscrutable. It is

like as Shankara said in his commentary on 'Satyam, jnanam, anantam

Brahmam' the moon on the bough. Naturally it conforms and is coherent with

the base rational philosophy thus given that for the Christian tradition

identity is based on the fact of being a person and that the physical body

is regarded as being integral to the concept of personhood the afterlife

will in some shape or form be physical in a physical location. The Vedic

view of identity is impersonal but if one has not realised this and in fact

identifies with the body then that is the afterlife you get, back again.

They agree on that much. The importance of the body for the continuity of

incarnation is emphasised by Shankara with his concept of the Linga Sarira

which ensures bodily continuity.

 

Any doctrine when rationally pushed will result in paradoxes and antinomies.

Remember how in the 19th. century religion was shaken to its foundations

by the theory of evolution from the scientific and the demythologisers from

the theologic, side. And then along came Ramakrishna. Swami Saradananda

relates how "At one time Swami Vivekananda raised an objection in regard to

the historicity of the play of Radha and Krishna at Vrindavan and made an

attempt to disprove its authenticity. The Master said in reply, "Very

well, let us take for granted that there was never any one called Radha and

that some loving Sadhaka had an imaginary conception of Radha's personality.

But while picturing that character, the Sadahka, you must admit, had to

lose himself completely in Radha's mood, and thus become Radha. It is thus

true that the play at Vrindavan was thus enacted in the outer world also."

(from Vol 1 'Sri Ramakrishna The Great Master' pg.259)

 

There is Krishna loka, Rama loka, Jesus Loka, Grail Loka, Ganesha Loka. All

these are confirmed and given supernatural reality by the vision of the

devotee and are eternally enacted. When the theories of Einstein in a

millenium or even less are shown to be impossibly naive they will be there

for the devotee. What separates vision from the delusional imagininings of

an enthusiast? Unity is the answer and the reality of divinisation. This

is demonstrated by the sadhana of Ramakrishna.(Q.E.D.!)

 

Best Wishes, Michael.

 

 

 

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