Jivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 10/12:
[Part – 9/12] [NDM: Also what about this sensitive money issue that seems to hit a raw nerve when ever it’s raised. Is there anything right or wrong with doing this? Is there anything right or wrong...
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[Part – 10/12] NDM: Ok, what about the belief in karma? Reincarnation? Whatever the incorporeal essence is that some believe transmigrates. It is known in different spiritual traditions; “the most...
View ArticleJivanmukta and Jivanmukti – 12/12
[Part – 11/12] NDM: R.D. Laing said “True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality… and through this...
View Articlepratibandha-s – part 8 of 10
Read Part 7 Yogic Advaita This is a term, which I had not encountered before, coined by Fort in Ref. 200. He uses it to refer to those teachers and texts that incorporate elements of sAMkhya and yoga...
View ArticleAbhAsa vAda
This is effectively Part 6 1/2 of 10 in the pratibandha series. It follows on from the heading of “The ‘mixture of Atman and mind’”. Apologies for the misleading and changing part numbers. This is the...
View ArticleThe Mind and its Death
(K3.31 – K.32) Everything that we perceive, we perceive through the senses; everything that we ‘know’, we know through the mind. Consciousness functions through the mind – the concept known as...
View ArticleNeo – Advaita & Traditional Advaita
Martin. In this seeming world of so-called saṃsāra (or vyavahāra) language and understanding, is there an entity or entities that understand, judge, etc.? Neo-Advaitin. This is simply ‘life’. ‘Being’...
View ArticleQ.518 Reincarnation and Enlightenment
Q: I have been trying to wrap my mind around the question posed here: https://www.advaita-vision.org/q-489-creation-and-reincarnation. Specifically: if reincarnation is not actually true and is just a...
View ArticleQ.535 Transmigrating Soul
Q: On your website it seems that, in the ‘Question and Answer’ section, it implies that there is an individual soul going from body to body. But in this interview from your same site Ramesh Baleskar...
View ArticleAdvaita Gurus and Critics – part 2
by Prof. Phillip Charles Lucas <Read Part 1> Modern Advaitins are the successors of a long line of Vedanta-inspired teachers and movements in North America that reaches back to 1830s New England...
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