A dialogue on advaita for beginners

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Namaste.

 

A STEP BY STEP FIRST EXPOSURE TO ADVAITA

THROUGH A DIALOGUE OF 1008 ENTRIES.

 

The following rambling conversation has been composed as an

attempt to bring to the lay reader some truths of advaita,

without venturing into long passages. So a conscious effort

has been made to reduce each bit of the conversation to a

single line (with just eight exceptions). It has turned

out to be a no-holds-barred dialogue, long and continuous.

In the modern days of desire to learn ‘without tears’,

this perhaps would carry a message to those of us who,

inspite of their intelligence in everything pertaining to

the world, think of themselves as dummies in advaita.

Incidentally I imposed on myself another restriction,

namely I will not exceed 1008 entries in this conversation.

And thus it has been a useful ‘nidhidhyAsana’

(Contemplation on what I have learnt) exercise for me. And

one may notice, the whole treatment goes in slow motion,

step by step. Concepts are brought in, one step at a time.

I think this is good for a purposeful nidhidhyAsanA,

especially for a beginner on the spiritual path. I

apologise for not breaking it into smaller sections or

chapters, because the continuous flow of thoughts would not

admit breaks.

 

Instead of crowding your mailboxes I uploaded the matter on

the web for use by all. It will be released in five

instalments. The first instalment of Entries 1 to 200 can

be seen in:

 

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/advaitadialoguepage1.html

 

My PraNAms to all the Great Gurus of the world and the Guru

of Gurus, Shri dakshhiNAmUrti.

 

V. Krishnamurthy