No, another case of both this and that.
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:55 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > 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
