ParaAdvaita as a new term.

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advaitajnana , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote:

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> GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery@> wrote:

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> GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery@> wrote:

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> > William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)

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> > To be, or not to be: that is the question:

> > Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

> > The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

> > Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

> > And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

> > No more; and by a sleep to say we end

> > The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

> > That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

> > Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

> > To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

> > For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

> > When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

> > Must give us pause: there's the respect

> > That makes calamity of so long life;

> > For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

> > The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

> > The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

> > The insolence of office and the spurns

> > That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

> > When he himself might his quietus make

> > With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

> > To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

> > But that the dread of something after death,

> > The undiscover'd country from whose bourn

> > No traveller returns, puzzles the will

> > And makes us rather bear those ills we have

> > Than fly to others that we know not of?

> > Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

> > And thus the native hue of resolution

> > Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

> > And enterprises of great pith and moment

> > With this regard their currents turn awry,

> > And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!

> > The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons

> > Be all my sins remember'd.

> >

> > Sankara said that the rope appears to be a snake, or Brahman appears

> > to be the world. However it all falls down when there is no snake in

> > the first place.........Tony.

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> Namaste,

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> That should have read no rope in the first place of course, but it

> doesn't matter the message is the same. People like the Sankara

> Advaitins cling to the concept of sat-cit- ananda in Brahman for they

> are afraid of the after death state as so is hamlet........Tony.

Namaste,

 

I think a new description instead of the normal three is appropriate

for Vedanta. Dvaita, Visishtadvaita, Advaita and now add

ParaAdvaita........Tony.