solipsism

[Guest guest]

I came across the following quote from Guru Sri Amritananda Natha:

 

"The world is a myth that is created out of nothing. Who is creating this world? Yourself.

Where was this world before you were born? It was not there. Where it is going to go after

you are gone? It is not there. That is the concept of Sachidananda. Sat is existence. Existence

- there is no validity or proof that it exists without consciousness. Consciousness has no

existence without existence itself. So, there is an equation between Sat and Chit. Sat is called

Shiva and Chit is called Shakthi. They are inseparable, although they appear to be separate.

Their inseparableness is Ananda. That is the fundamental theorem, we can say, that ?I am the

world?. ?I = WORLD?. These are all called Triputis."

 

My question: is this different from solipsism (the position that nothing exists outside of one's

own mind), and if so, how?

[Guest guest]

There is but One Body, One Mind -- She is the Seer, the Act of

Seeing and the Seen. Reality is real; and we can change Reality by

changing, or transcending, our perceptions of it in an absolute

sense.

 

The Universe is not a creation of "our own" mind, though it is the

nature of Maya that we sometimes perceive it thus. The Universe is

the creation of Her Mind; but that does not mean it is intangible,

immaterial, or false -- its very substance is Her Body. To believe

that nothing exists outside "one's own" mind is solipsism. To

realize (and not merely understand or believe) that everything that

exists is both a product of Her Mind and an aspect of Her Body, and

that She is fully You (and not the limited "you" who seeks "one's

own") is moksa.

 

, "willendorfer"

<willendorfer wrote:

 

> My question: is this different from solipsism (the position that

nothing exists outside of one's

> own mind), and if so, how?

>