Duveyoung wrote: > Here's my first attempt to unfuzzify things. > > Once upon a time, there were three aspects: Absolute, > Being, Manifesting Being. > Only in metaphysical theory - there's nothing in nature that would indicate that reality is a manifestation of three supernatural powers. It's more reasonable to infer from observation that there is a primal unity in nature, not chaos. An orderly universe implies a unity, rather than a duality. It's natural to assume that everything is in reality one, and that everything is connected and dependant on other things.
Although we infer that the ultimate reality is one, we don't know what to call it until we read the scriptures. Ishvara in the Yoga Tradition is the same as the Brahman in the Vedantic tradition. But, Ishvara is not 'God' in the sense of a Creator nor is Ishvara a demi-God such as Shiva, Parvati, Durga, etc. The only Indian tradition that purported the idea that Brahma the Creator was a material entity was Charvaka and Sanjaya the Skeptic. All the schools of Vedanta are transcendentalist in point-of-view.
