Guest guest Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 In advaitin , " mahadevadvaita " <mahadevadvaita wrote: because Ishvara is not different from the laws of the universe. I kind > of doubt if this subject is discussed anywhere but please let me know > if it is. > regards, > Om Namah Sivaya > Namaste,M-ji, Sankara goes into the consituents of the subtle in his teachings. The subtle body is what we call the 'soul'. AJ Alston has a whole book on it for from Shanti Sadan in London. Essentially imho, all within illusion, the soul is the 'Ego' as a string and all the other thoughts as a the sutra. In other word it is 'mind'. Where did it start, it didn't but it can end. So the soul is an illusory entity, Iswara is the sum total of the Jivas and is also illusory. But if you want to attribute some reality to the subtle for arguments sake, it is just finer material than the gross material body thats all. However it is all within 'mind', and is mind with all its vasanas, samskaras and karmas. There is no way of explaining the beginning of something that didn't ever happen, we can only describe the constituents of an illusion, or observe a barren woman's son..That is why imho Ajativada is the logical conclusion...............ONS...Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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