Re: Cause for Rebirth - A Question.
Namaste Srivijaya and Markandeya,
I would just add my two bits here. As I have already told in my previous post that intellectual discussion is not what real Advaita VedAnta is. Meditational Practices and Self-Realisation is inherent part of all Advaita schools as far as I know. The followers don't keep discussing intellectual things in Advaita Schools as it may appear from discussion on this forum. The emphasis there too is on meditation and attaining Samadhi where the Self-realisation occurs. The VedAntic Gurus don't discourage intellectual discussion on describing the Reality as it is avoided in Buddhism.
What is inferior and what is superior ? Buddhism has been attacked in Hindu Dharma as it is considered NAstika school due to absence of God in the whole philosophy. However, when I see the Turiya ... where is God in Turiya ? God needs a relative perception from the position of "what is not-God" but in Turiya there is no other for this perception. This is my position but many Advaitic scholars may not agree with me and tend to call Turiya as God's NirAkAr aspect.
On the other hand, Buddhists too discarded Advaita VedAntic scriptures and discourses based on them because Buddha didn't teach them that way. They feel that their path is superior as their path has given many countable Buddhas/enlightened followers and they feel that that number is much more than those of Advaita VedAntins.
The problem is not in Buddhism and Advaita VedAnta. The problem is the feeling of "Mine" and "Not-mine". When I consider something as mine and something else as of "others", I tend to get biased when I compare. But is there really a need to compare ? Let's go back to business and instead of breaking our head on which path is superior and which path is inferior, follow the path we choose with all sincerity. Sit down in meditation and realise the Truth.
If Truth is really there, how can it be more than One ??
OM
"Om Namo Bhagvate Vaasudevaye"
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