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Science and Vedanta (Part 1)
Part 1 of a 3-part essay by Dr. K. Sadananda, AchArya at Chinmaya Mission, Washington. Science is Objective The word science is derived from the root ‘scire’, meaning to know. Hence science really...
View ArticleQ. 366 – Self-knowledge – should we bother?
Q: At the end of the day, what does knowledge of self give us ? It does not help answer the burning question of why the appearance/dream/mAyA that we are experiencing as humans or animals exists. (I am...
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Science and Vedanta (Part 3)
Part 3 of a 3-part essay by Dr. K. Sadananda, AchArya at Chinmaya Mission, Washington. (read part 2) What is Absolute Reality? Vedanta defines the absolute reality as that which can never be negated at...
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Panchadashi and Prarabdha
(Another salVo in the ongoing battle over jIvanmukti, j~nAna phalam, pratibhandaka-s and prArabdha – see Knowledge, Action and Liberation and Knowledge, Action and Liberation – AV) The following is an...
View ArticleScience vs. Philosophy – Part II
Y – I can not parse your meaning, i.e. I have no idea what you are trying to say. Still have no idea what you are trying to say. X – What I’m trying to say is to point at core insights within Eastern...
View ArticleScience and Philosophy – Part III
“The intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups…literary intellectuals at one pole – at the other scientists, and as the most representative,...
View ArticleQ. 370 – nirvikalpa samAdhi
Q: Should a person have compulsorily experienced nirvikalpa-samādhi in order to know that he has a mind which is prepared for jñāna? In other words, is experience of nirvikalpa-samādhi a must as a...
View ArticleModern knowledge and the Vedas
Do the Vedas really contain any advanced knowledge as so many people claim they do? QUORA 15.3.15 – I’d say the Vedas contain the most fundamental and ‘advanced’ knowledge there is, though mostly...
View ArticleQ. 371 – Deep-sleep state
Q: In advaita, we use the recall of a “good deep sleep” as a very important argument for proving continued presence of awareness… the question is, how does this recall happen? We have a process in...
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Should I stop enquiring???????
Should I stop enquiring??????? Vijay Pargaonkar (मुञ्डकोपनिषत्) MundakaUpanishat 3-2-9 “Anyone who knows that supreme Brahman becomes Brahman indeed……….” My search for Brahman started with...
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Atma vichAra
The Self cannot be ‘known’ in any objective sense because it is the ultimate subject – there is no other subject that could know it. This is why science can never tell us anything about the Self....
View ArticleQ. 372 – Superimposition and Memory
Q: What is the relationship between memory and superimposition (adhyAsa)? In the metaphor of rope and snake, we say that we fail to see the snake clearly, because of inadequate light – there is partial...
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Vedanta the Solution – Part 20
VEDĀNTA the solution to our fundamental problem by D. Venugopal Part 20 looks at the defining requirements of a good teacher and at the distinction between subject and object. There is a complete...
View ArticleQ. 377 – Desire and suffering
(Also discusses Buddhism versus Advaita; analysis versus experience; need for practice) Q: Your work is both beautiful and rigorous, and I’ve appreciated your continuous efforts to continue the...
View ArticleHow could we merge absurdist and Buddhist philosophies?
www.quora.com/How-could-we-merge-absurdist-and-Buddhist-philosophies M. Provisionally we could put side by side ‘absurd’ (or illogical) and ‘unprovable’, even if they are not synonymous; and the main...
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Tattvabodha – Part 7
Part 7 of the commentary by Dr. VIshnu Bapat on Shankara’s Tattvabodha.This is a key work which introduces all of the key concepts of Advaita in a systematic manner. The commentary is based upon those...
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dUra
dUra Continuing the reposting of blogs from Advaita Academy, here is one from 2010. It is interesting to note that I have not further encountered this word since then! So it was a one-off....
View Article‘ego’, self, and metaphysics – Part lV
In the Buddhist perspective, the ego or self as ordinarily considered in Western traditions (i.e., as soul or person), is a non-self, actually a non-entity (anatta). Hence the suffering, which stems...
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Q.381 – Knowledge, belief and experience
Note: This discussion follows on from the last question on ‘Finding a Teacher’ (apart from the introductory paragraphs). Many seekers think that the essence of enlightenment is ‘experience’; that they...
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Reflections on Body-Mind and Liberation
There has been much healthy debate recently on the Advaita Vision Blog about Liberation, who or what is a jnani or jivanmukta, and what it means to follow traditional Advaita. The theme of this post is...
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