Question for all Advaitins-Mary Baker Eddy - the AMERICAN lady!!!

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Mahadevadvaita writes ....

 

( If you take it to that extent, then you can reject

Advaita too since it came from a mortal being. )

 

Sir/madam, first of all i do not consider Adi SHANKARA BHAGVADAPADA

as a mortal being . He is the very incarnation of Lord

Dakshinamurthy. ( Shankara bhagwan)

 

and as far as Sri Ramana is considered , he is considered an

incarnation of Lord Shanmuka. That is why his devotees refer to him

as Bhagwan.

 

Then comes Sri RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA- Thakore himself told his

devotees right before he attained Samadhi, he is an incarnation of

Lord Rama and Krishna ....

 

All these great saints are avatara purushas who took a 'physical'

body to spread Divine knowledge.

 

Mahadevaadvaita writes ...

 

(I was just trying to point out that somebody in the western

world came up with a similar philosophy (ofcourse much

much later than Shankar) and it is used by thousands

all over the world. If I tell you now that there are

thousands of cases of healing based on this (including

broken bones fixed) you will probably not believe it

and that is fine. )

 

why would we not believe it? There is something called 'Faith

Healing' -

 

Devotees of Puttaparthi Sai Baba have total faith in him. He has

cured many 'ailments' his devotees were suffering from... Many god

realized souls have 'siddhis' and they can use these siddhis to cure

people.

 

In any case, are you referring to an American Lady by the name MARY

EDDY BAKER ?

 

Here is a short biography of this lady...

 

Mary Baker Eddy

 

(July 16, 1821 - December 3, 1910)

by Valerie Minard

 

 

Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910)--author of "Science and Health with Key

to the Scriptures" and founder of the six time Pulitzer Prize winning

newspaper "The Christian Science Monitor"--was born and raised near

Concord, New Hampshire, in the United States. Because of restrictions

on women's education in nineteenth century America, and because of

many bouts of illness, she received much of her education at home,

sometimes with the help her brother Albert, a student at Dartmouth

College.

 

She experienced some difficult years as a young woman. She was

widowed (and pregnant) six months into her first marriage. Hoping to

regain a stable home life for herself and her son, she married again,

but her second marriage eventually ended in divorce. In poor health

during much of this time, she experimented with allopathic medicine

and alternative therapies, particularly with homeopathy. She was

seeking an understanding of the relationship between mind and body.

Simultaneously, she continued a life-long study of the Bible

searching to uncover its promise of spiritual healing.

 

In 1866, she was healed of a life-threatening accident through

spiritual insights gained from the Bible. Over the next few years she

studied the Scriptures deeply, looking for a spiritual system behind

the healing works of Christ Jesus. She tested what she was learning

by healing other people, including some considered medically

incurable. She also taught others to heal, using this system she

later called: "Christian Science."

 

In 1875, Mary Baker Eddy published the first edition of "Science and

Health with Key to the Scriptures," her major work on the theology

and healing system of Christian Science. In 1879, she founded a

church in Boston, Massachusetts, and served as its pastor for about

ten years. In 1881, she established The Massachusetts Metaphysical

College to teach others her system of healing --including doctors,

lawyers, businessmen, and homemakers. She started a monthly magazine

called "The Christian Science Journal," in 1883, and was its first

editor. In 1892 she reorganized the church. Several years later she

ordained the Bible and "Science and Health" as its pastor. This

opened the way for both women and men to conduct church services,

where they read from these books. Today local branch churches, known

as Churches of Christ, Scientist, have been opened in over seventy

countries around the world.

 

In 1898, she established a publishing company, and added a weekly

magazine to its publications. In 1908, at age 86, she founded "The

Christian Science Monitor."

 

"Science and Health" has been a best seller for over 90 years. It

has been translated into 17 languages (including English Braille),

and was selected by the Women's National Book Association as one

of "75 books by women whose words have changed the world." In just

the last five years of the twentieth century, it sold over one

million copies.

 

In 1995, Eddy was recognized for her many achievements and inducted

in the National Women's Hall of Fame. .

 

(http://womenshistory.about.com/library/ bio/...?)

 

Thank you for that beautiful quotation from this great soul

 

love and regards

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advaitin, "adi_shakthi16"

<adi_shakthi16> wrote:

 

 

Namaste,

 

Yes Mary Baker Eddy founded the Christian Science Movement, I think.

A saintly person.

 

However it is not the doctor that cures us but the Universal

Consciousness and/of Prarabda Karma.

 

Many frauds seem to cure people. You see them on tv or lining up in

India and other places to be healed. People become healed through

their own faith or prarabda and that's it.

 

If they believe strong enough it could be 'humpty dumpty' standing

there. Also many of the cures are not of the lasting kind. I know of

several people that were cured by a certain very popular guru in

India and now they are sick again. He is supposed to have siddhis

but lets not go into that. It can be dangerous as well. One pair of

sisters, 'Pink Twins',Dorothy and Moiya, that I know very well from

a group in Australia, were cured by a certain guru of arthritic

destruction of their knees. They even refused new knees from the

doctors, because they wanted their guru to cure them. Well the last

time I saw them they were back in wheel chairs and walkers. They

didn't even have a real dynamic cure in the first place. Many of the

tv variety also are cured by a rush of prana, and mass hypnosis but

it doesn't last before the samskaras manifest again.

 

We can only live healthily, surrender and if necessary we will be

cured if it is karmic................ONS..Tony.