Dear Devotee,
Sharing your experiences was so nice. Your beloved father as a helping hand, loving friends serving you with thoughts on wisdom, and above all, by the grace of god, we have lots to learn from these. What is admirable is that you always remained a self seeker, away from spoon feeding, and transforming every moment of your life to the search for true knowledge.
None of us are perfect. Some are seniors but none are seers, so let us therefore aim at this distant goal but not different from anyone of us.
Devotee wrote
“However, the reality was that "I existed", "this world existed" and there was certainly some intelligent system working behind all this. This all cannot be just by chance. It was not possible. ... so, the questions existed and kept bothering me.”
Then you added: ..
this book (Gita) left a deep impression on me, I accepted Lord Krishna as my Guru and God.
Q:
You were so convinced, and that remained the sole reason you chose Lord Krishna as your first Guru. What was that unshakable belief that benefited you?
Q:
How did Gita explain the existence of this World and US as individuals?
“I found that MAyA was indeed the cause of this world when I was able to visualise how a Solid Wall had actually nothing solid within it in reality.”
Q:
How precisely does the Upanishads explain Maya as the cause of this world?
Q:
How do you differentiate the teachings of the Gita and the Upanishads in the issue of existence (of both the World and “I”)?
I am not always connected to the internet and not a busy person either, so feel free to take enough time to answer this, you may even take a stand of No-Reply to this.
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Devotee wrote
People come here. Learn a thing or two about Advaita and start bashing Advaita based on their half-cooked knowledge about it. That is what Uttam was doing. He ridiculed not only Advaita but also tried to show the greatest of Advaita teachers, Adi Guru Sri ShankarachArya in poor light as if He was actually a fraud who came to delude human beings of this world who were all bound to be liberated but for teachings of Shankara !!
Uttam is equally competent to any member here. he is curious about advaita vedanta. he feels this particular science misguides a mass of people , and feels pity towards it.
So it is his deep concern pertaining to the future of many than a personal attack . or could be seen as a a kind of elucidation in terms of the pramanas(authorized knowledge) he has been taught
As everyone has the freedom to express himself and get clarified by the compassionate comrades, let us consider this issue ethically. Fighting is not an end to any means. This is my POV on this
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