On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark Ty-Wharton <[email protected]>wrote:
> I wrote my blog earlier and I had a bit of a private chat about it > with Roomsearching which led to the following thoughts > > What is the purpose of Advaita? > > What is the real purpose of Advaita? > > For whom is that purpose meaningful? > > Who is it who finds or does not find meaning? > > What is the purpose of Advaita? > > Note if you answer that it has no purpose... > > Why is it happening? > There is no explanation as to why things are manifested.But whatever is happening is because of the non-dual pure consciousness being mixed with food. It is only a play of five elements - meaningless and and empty. As long as you pay interest to it (desire), it will seem to be meaningful. The moment you lose interest in it, the world does not exist. When there is no food, there is no world. Without food, only you (the pure consciousness are). *Personality is food. Desire is food. Everything except you is food. The world is food (representation of the world inside your head or memories and perceptions, associations, feelings, thoughts are all made up of food)*. Have good food and be a good man. That is all. > > What is the purpose of Advaita? > To show you the *reality* - the oneness(advaita literally means non-duality ie. a - dvaita ). when you see the reality, all desires will drop immediately. The desire "to be" has to be given up first. The desire to be somebody will be an obstacle to reality.
