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  1. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    In all honesty, that answer can be a bit confusing. Surely, when the world and yourself disappear (as you knew it) its an experience of a transformation. At the same time, the same witness-Self will remain just as before.
  2. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    There is no spoon!
  3. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    I was joking a bit... and here is some more: The thing is that, if all is brahman, then all is the play of brahman, playing with himself like a schitzofrenic. Ignorance cant be blamed on the jiva, which didnt exist in the first place.
  4. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    Kārikā, verse 4.98 . All Dharmas (i.e., Jīvas) are ever free from bondage and pure by nature. They are ever illumined and liberated from the very beginning. Still the wise speak of the Jīvas as capable of knowing (‘the Ultimate Truth’).
  5. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    Resently found this: http://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/mandukya-upanishad-karika-bhashya/d/doc143599.html Mandukya Upanishad Gaudapada’s Karika Śaṅkara’s Commentary Ānandagiri’s Ṭīkā (glossary)
  6. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    But Aupmanyav, its an interesting discussion. All creation strives for liberation. If it started an eternity ago (i.e. no beginning) all would have been liberated an eternity ago... But here we are. There will never be a time when all are liberated. Its pretty clear. At least relatively...
  7. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    The end of maya is the end of samsara... but wait... maya is an eternal aspect of brahman... So there is no hope whatsoever... ;)
  8. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    Also... (as I understand it)... Mahayana goes back to Mahāsāṃghika who is nowdays thought to represent an older tradition than Therevada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81s%C4%81%E1%B9%83ghika
  9. Ekanta

    Gaudapada and Nagarjuna

    Hi DanielR. I will give an answer as to how I understand it. mādhyamaka (emptiness doctrine) Lets see what he Nagarjuna says about two truths and complare it to Nirvana sutra: Nagarjuna: "The Buddha's teaching of the Dharma is based on two truths: a truth of worldly convention and an...
  10. Ekanta

    Upanayanam for Ladies?

    I have first hand experience, was there two times, 7 months total, had an interview also. He did many miracles, one time he healed my broken sandals (just a leela). At the interview he knew all my questions before I asked them. He then looked me deep in the eye's for a long time and offred me...
  11. Ekanta

    Upanayanam for Ladies?

    So Sathya Sai Baba is a christian cult? Kind of funny since he states himself that: "My main tasks are fostering of the Vedas and fostering of the devotees" http://www.saibaba.ws/articles/mission.htm
  12. Ekanta

    Upanayanam for Ladies?

    It doesnt quite make sense... I've read about two reasons which contradict it: 1. Women are (generally) more sattvic than men. 2. It might not always have been so. To quote Sathya Sai Baba (and his translator): Women have satvaguna in ample measure, They are by nature helpful, tender...
  13. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    Nirvana is cessation of the relative, i.e. exactly that. We have to separate between nirvana itself which is annihilation of mental activities and the insight that it exists amongst the phenomena. When alive its there and also phenomena. When pari-nirvana (death of a buddha), phenomena ceases...
  14. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    I have answered your questions spiny, but since you cant read and much less process the information, it doesnt help.
  15. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    Spiny... you pretend to know buddhim, and yet you know nothing about hindusim, the context in which buddhism come form? LOL?
  16. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    And the Hamster wheel continues... gg, Im out.
  17. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    "Monk, the property of light, the property of beauty, the property of the dimension of the infinitude of space, the property of the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, the property of the dimension of nothingness: These properties are to be reached as perception attainments. The...
  18. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    He was not dead yet? Anyway, this is several verses before he actually died. Notice that he repeats the process of going through stages several times.
  19. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    Cessation of perception & feeling is not a state of the mind, since the mind has stopped working. It does not depend on the temporary mind! Then you go on to talk about "While the Arahant is still alive, he still experiences the five aggregates"... that is another topic, then he has come out of...
  20. Ekanta

    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    I suppose by "consiousness" you mean one of the skandhas or at least depending on the skandhas somehow (otherwise you have to admit that consciousness is independent of skandhas). But we have a smal problem. The skandhas cant travel to that place, so how would there be conscioussness at all...
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