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Advaita enquiry and educating disciplines

 

In what we take for knowledge, how far do we know truly? And how far is

our so-called 'knowing' mistaken? How far is it a confusing pretence,

where knowledge is mixed up with mistakes that we have made, through

errors of perception and belief? These are questions that we sometimes

ask, a little bit, so as to be a little clearer in our seeing and our

thinking.

 

These questions are asked in an enquiry that's called 'advaita' or

'non-dual'. But, in this enquiry, the questions are not asked just 'a

little bit'. They are meant to be asked so thoroughly that nothing else

but truth remains. The aim is to find a truth which is completely

uncompromised, by any mixture with untruth or falsity.

 

Advaita questioning thus starts in duality, by carefully distinguishing

between what seem to be two different things. But the investigation is

not meant to maintain some compromised mixture of opposites. Instead,

it's meant to be pursued so thoroughly that it reflects within itself,

back down towards an unmixed truth where no opposition or duality

remains.

 

In the modern world, this kind of questioning has now become more open.

The questions are now asked more directly, in ordinary language that is

closer to our everyday lives. There's less appeal to the traditional

authority of old religions. And there is more questioning of ordinary

words and ideas that we use today, as we apply them to our common

experience.

 

This is the approach of some writings that are presented below, about

advaita questioning and its relationship to educating disciplines that

we have currently inherited.

 

The writings may be downloaded for viewing and printing. (It should be

noted that their content often overlaps.)

 

The files are in 'pdf' format, which will require the Adobe Acrobat

reader.

 

In order to download, please click on the title in italics.

(Best to right click and then select 'Save Target As...'.)

 

 

Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda

 

Shri Atmananda was a modern advaita philosopher who lived in Kerala

State, India, 1983-1959. The writings in this website are inspired by

his teachings. The following collection of notes on his discourses was

published by a disciple, Shri Nitya Tripta.

 

Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Notes.pdf> (518 pages, 1860k)

 

Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda

- with hyperlinks added to index and statements

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Notes_linked.pdf> (518 pages, 2223k)

 

Some further information on Shri Atmananda may be found at:

http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/atmananda/atmananda1.htm

<http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/atmananda/atmananda1.htm>

 

 

The Upanishads

 

>From the Upanishads

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/FromTheUpanishads.pdf> (279 pages,

518k)

 

Interpreting the Upanishads

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/InterpretingTheUpanishads.pdf> (219

pages, 464k)

 

Om - from the Mandukya Upanishad <http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Om.pdf>

(11 pages, 66k)

 

The Upanishads - An introduction

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/UpanishadsIntro.pdf> (20 pages, 75k)

 

The Upanishads - Asking for simplicity

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Upanishads_AskingForSimplicity.pdf> (15

pages, 71k)

 

Nature and consciousness

- Gargi questions Yajnyavalkya

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Nature&Consciousness.pdf> (26 pages,

100k)

 

 

Tradition and its modernization

 

Knowledge before printing and after

- a view of the Advaita tradition

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/KnBfPr&A_Advaita.pdf> (16 pages, 79k)

 

Ways to truth - A view of the Hindu tradition

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/WaysToTruth.pdf> (169 pages, 634k)

 

Knowledge before printing and after -

The Indian tradition in changing Kerala

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/KnowledgeBeforePrinting&After.pdf> (138

pages, 573k)

 

 

Language

 

Language and science - Bhartrihari's questioning

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/BhartrhariQuestioning.pdf> (9 pages,

85k)

 

Bhartrihari's Vakyapadiya - some excerpts

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/VakyapadiyaExcerpts.pdf> (37 pages,

211k)

 

Old ideas of language

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/OldIdeasOfLanguage.pdf> (42 pages,

175k)

 

Levels of language - from an old philosophy

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/LevelsOfLanguage.pdf> (18 pages, 102k)

 

 

Old and new sciences

 

Old sciences in India - An introduction

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/OldScisInIndia.pdf> (82 pages, 427k)

 

Old sciences in India - summarizing

questions, figures and diagrams

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/OldScisInIndia_Questions&Figs.pdf> (20

pages, 289k)

 

Educating sciences of life and mind

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/EducatingSciences.pdf> (14 pages, 79k)

 

Some old ideas of life and mind

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/SomeOldIdeas.pdf> (23 pages, 112k)

 

Nature and life - Old ideas, new questioning

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Nature&life.pdf> (22 pages, 170k)

 

Elements of personality and world - some diagrams

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/ElementDiagrams.pdf> (3 pages, 83k)

 

Physics and psychology

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/Physics&Psychology.pdf> (8 pages, 59k)

 

New science, old questions

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/NewScienceOldQuestions.pdf> (127 pages,

445k)

 

`Reality' in modern physics

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/RealityInModPhysics.pdf> (23 pages,

87k)

 

 

Advaita philosophy

 

Where thought turns back…

A skeptical approach to truth

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/WhereThroughtTurnsBack.pdf> (20 pages,

85k)

 

Three states and one reality -

from the Mandukya Upanishad

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/3States&1Reality.pdf> (8 pages, 51k)

 

Objective pictures and impersonal knowledge

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/ObjPics&ImprsnlKnowledge.pdf> (26

pages, 85k)

 

Old ideas of mind <http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/OldIdeasOfMind.pdf>

(16 pages, 81k)

 

Nothing but truth - An interpretation of

Jnyaneshvara's Cangadeva Pasashti

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/NothingButTruth.pdf> (16 pages, 45k)

 

Sat-cit-ananda - some diagrams

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/SatCitAnanda_diagrams.pdf> (6 pages,

58k)

 

 

Short articles and verse

 

Questioning back in - some articles

<http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/QuestioningBackIn.pdf> (72 pages, 231k)

 

Assorted verse <http://www.advaitin.net/Ananda/AssortedVerse.pdf> (90

pages, 218k)