Billy wrote: > > Here's the answer, you become anandam, you are anandam, > > jstein wrote: > But the answer to the question "What is samadhi > like?" is still "It's like nothing." > No, it's not like 'nothing', it's like 'satchitananda', Absolute Bliss Conciousness. If Brahman was nothing, it would be devoid of attributes and it it would be no different that Nagarjuna's Middle Way Buddhism. In which case, Shankara would be a Madhyamika Buddhist, instead of a Vedantin. You've failed to understand the fundamental difference between Voidism and Asolutism. There's no absolute, bliss or otherwise, in 'nothing'. If Shankara had intended for his system to be equated with Shunyavada, he would have said so, instead of writing commentaries on the Upanishads.
Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: willytex Date: 31 Jan 2005 20:03:02 -0800 Subject: Vimshatika-Vrtti on Karika http://tinyurl.com/2f4pp3
