Part VI

[Guest guest]

Namaste Shri Michaelji,

 

I am grateful to you for your camaraderie on the less beaten path of

Advaita realism. Like you, I am also of the opinion that the springs

are common in the West and East, but the symbolisms through which

they are expressed are often quite different. Of course, as you

mention, the problem fields are different - for example, one doesn't

find the same kinds of syllogisms in Greek philosophy and Indian

Nyaya philosophy - but the Truth that surfaces through these fields

is, I think, the same, only with different flavours.

 

Warm regards,

Chittaranjan

 

 

 

advaitin, ombhurbhuva <ombhurbhuva@e...> wrote:

> Namaste Chitteranjanji,

> Your continued pressing of the

> the Realist position as being entirely valid within the

> domain of Advaita strikes a chord with me. Like you I

> believe that this is a grossly neglected and moreover

> ill understood aspect of the Advaitic intuition. I use

> the word 'intuition' advisedly in that I hold that the

> springs of a world view are out of the pre-conceptual

> and chthonic.These waters bubble up East and West from

> the same source. Now I fully accept that this is a

> difficult thesis to uphold. In this sub-terra incognita

> one goes by inklings and by the faith that after all

> human nature is of the same timber all the world over.

> Nothing fanciful there, but two elements give rise to

> doubts. The problem fields are different which causes

> subtle differences which make it seem as though the

> streams, to keep the hydraulic metaphor, had different

> sources.