Another case of not this, not that?
On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:34 AM, 118 wrote: > Hi Marsha, > Which translation of the Isopanishad are you reading? > Mark > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:51 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hinduism >> >> Advaita Vedanta >> >> Advaita is one of the six most-known Hindu philosophical systems, and >> literally means "non-duality". Its first great consolidator was Adi >> Shankaracharya, who continued the work of some of the Upanishadic teachers, >> and that of his teacher's teacher Gaudapada. By analyzing the three states >> of experience—waking, dreaming, and deep sleep—he established the singular >> reality of Brahman, in which Brahman, the universe and Atman, the self are >> one and the same. >> >> In the Hindu model, Brahman, the god identified with the ultimate >> all-inclusive reality, plays a game of hide and seek with itself. In this >> game, called Lila, Brahman plays with individual people, birds, rocks, and >> other features of the world both separately and together, while forgetting >> that the game is being played. At the end of each session, Brahman is said >> to wake up, cease the game, applaud itself, and resume the game all over >> again. The state of wakefulness and enlightenment is knowing one is simply >> playing a game; one is simply acting as a human being, having an illusion of >> being locked within a physical body and separated from the whole of the >> cosmos. >> >> One who sees everything as nothing but the Self, and the Self in everything >> one sees, such a seer withdraws from nothing. >> For the enlightened, all that exists is nothing but the Self, so how could >> any suffering or delusion continue for those who know this oneness? >> >> — Ishopanishad: sloka 6, 7 >> >> The philosophy of Vedanta, "Aham Brahmasmi" (roughly translated as "I am the >> Absolute Truth"), could be interpreted as solipsism in one of its primitive >> senses, as the world is but an illusion in the mind of the observer. >> However, Advaita Vedanta can be understood to be non-solipsistic when it is >> recognised that it does not actually deny the existence of a world >> 'external' to the Self or Atman. Rather, it is asserting that the >> consciousness and awareness of the individual pervades all of that person's >> experience, to such an extent that absolute notions of 'inside' and >> 'outside' are arbitrary. The universe is the same as the self, as the >> universe can only be experienced through the self and the self is submerged >> within the universe as an integrated part. >> >> However, Advaita is strongly divergent from solipsism in that the former is >> a system of exploration of one's mind in order to finally understand the >> nature of the self and attain complete knowledge. The unity of existence is >> said to be directly experienced and understood at the end as a part of >> complete knowledge. On the other hand solipsism posits the non-existence of >> the external void right at the beginning, and says that no further inquiry >> is possible. >> >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism >> ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
