Guest guest Posted February 16, 2000 Report Share Posted February 16, 2000 Would anyone like to respond to this comment on the Avadhuta posted by Mahalayananda. .....................jay -------------mesg------------------ This is a very essential question often difficult for most people to encompass. Laaksman Joo from the Kasmiri Shivaist tradition (To which also this author belongs) calls it a transmutation where the absolute in the descending state actually doesn´t change att all only apparently since nothing is can be taken away or added. The Shivais tradition is a monist tradition seeing everything as the absolute in different forms. Only the limitations of our minds keep us from realizing this. As high as you are that high you see. If you are in the valley you are not able to overlook things, but on the mountain or nowadays from space you will be able to overlook it all. From a distance the earth even appears small. Still it didn´t change at all but your view only. Yours Mahalayananda > > Avadhuta Gita > > This verse deals with the difficult concept of how can the infinite become > finite? > > How can the same one 'divine' appear in all this variety? > .........jay > > EDTipple > > Chapter 2, Verse 9: > > Translation by : Swami Chetanananda > As water can be hot or cold or warm, and still be the same water, so > also prakriti (matter) and Purusha (Spirit) it seems to me, are > identical. > > Translation by :Swami Ashokananda > As pungency, coldness, or softness is non-different from water, so > prakriti is nondifferent from purusha -- thus it appears to me. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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