Non-Dualism - Dualism and dharma

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> My dear,atman,My mind wants to know whether dualism is correct or

> non-dualism is correct.This is very troubling thing to my mind.

 

i see that the message is posted in agony. this agony is due to beleif

(a form of sankalpa, sankalpa is born out of kalpanA). who asked one

to beleive that there is an Atman? it is our fault to start with such

an assumption. we cannot blame ramaNa, Sankara, rAmAnuja or mAdhva for

it. what is Atman? the dualist will give one definition and the

non-dualist another. when u don't know whom to beleive, it is best not

to beleive that there is an Atman.

 

this might sound defiant to members here, but what im trying to say is

this.

 

u r the one who has to find out if the universe is one and non-dual or

is it dual. to do so, instead of thinking there is a soul, look for

the truth objectively. whatever is the truth will then become known.

if it is non-duality which is right, so will u know it. if it is

duality, u will know it thus. why the trouble?

 

this is dharma. dharma it is if one looks for the truth. not searching

for a soul, imagining it as either localized within the body or as

spread out everywhere. both r mere imaginations and hv nothing to do

with the truth.

 

i wish we all hv less attachment for such concepts as soul or mAyA

(they r best suited for a dining room discussion) and put in the same

effort into dharma and search for the truth.

 

swami vivekanada said: 'it is better to be an atheist and use one's

reason than to beleive blindly. im sure god will forgive a person who

uses the faculty of reason he has gifted to him.'

 

-balaji