Re: Pre-Marital Sex
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Sudarshan
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You have already contradicting yourself heavily when you said - "All gods are also said to be in Turiyatita, in full yoga with Self and omniscient. ". Where is the concept of many gods in Turiyatita, which is mere oneness and undifferentiated consciousness? Do these gods know each other, if they are one and the same why call them "many gods"?
A lamp and a table are both forms of consciousness. In waking state one does not go and attempt to obtain light from a table.
If knowledge of Self (Advaita) makes one forget this then woe to such knowledge. And if Upanishads were teaching this and if Shankara was teaching this then ------- ha ha. Yes in Samadhi, wherein the knowledge is obtained nothing is known.
But that is not a bondage. It is about freedom.
Please do not form your own opinions. Do not try to understand Advaita by reading its critiques. If you are sincere, start by reading Tripura Rahasya or Yoga Vashista. There is no difference in VA and Advaita, except that Advaita holds that for mukti the Advaita knowledge (knowledge of the Self) is essential. VA seems to differ.
If Self has to be known one cannot remain different from it. But one established in Self has no more localised ego, so why should the Self be bound any more? It is ever liberated, causing no change in the Turiya, which is changeless.
Advaita is about knowledge of the Self and the knowledge that it is na lipayate. About freedom.
Om Namah Shivayya
Last edited by atanu; 13 January 2007 at 10:39 AM.
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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