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How does Advaita Vedanta assert and prove the eternality of cognition of Non dual Atman?
Prof Chandradhar Sharma on Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy, Page 312 writes,
A momentary idea can be neither self-luminous nor can it ideate
itself. The reality of permanent self-luminous Self ...
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Difference between Atman, Chetna and Chaitanya?
Chetana means consciousness.
Chaitanya = chetanasya bhAvana shyaN, meaning 'the feeling of consciousness'. To be more precise, Chetana + 'ya' = Chaitanya. shyaN is a formal way of referring to the ya ...
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Difference between Atman, Chetna and Chaitanya?
The Atman is indicated as something
other than the gross, subtle and causal bodies,
beyond the five sheaths of matter; a witness to the
Waking, dream and deep sleep states
of Consciousness and the ...
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Need help for my friend's soul after he passed
The question has been answered. Just attaching scriptural references...
To be read with caution as the ancient disciplinarians attached different values to different individuals as per caste. In today'...
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Why and how do Advaitans reconcile that one's true nature is Atman/Brahman alone?
Why can't it be that Subtle body alone is our true nature ?
The subtle body can't be our true nature because it perishes after moksha. A Jiva is eternal.
Never was there a time when I did not exist, ...
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Is experience of Self/Atma not a mystical experience as per Traditional Advaita Vedanta? If so how can it be experienced?
It is an adhyatmik experience.
This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by
intelligence, or by hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him
alone whom It chooses. To such a one ...
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Is experience of Self/Atma not a mystical experience as per Traditional Advaita Vedanta? If so how can it be experienced?
There are many ways of reaching the self. I have experimented for years.Not out of greed for joy but out of exploring what I should explore for. I have not reached but I sense what lies ahead.
Since ...
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Uniqueness question : How to identify a Soul as it doesn't have name, body, religion, country etc etc! How to differentiate a soul from another?
Every human and probably every living thing has three kinds of body, not one.
Every one has multiple koshas or sheaths which form three different kinds of body.
Annamaya Kosha or Food sheath
Pranmaya ...
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How does a Jnani forbearer various unpleasant events from perspective of Atman?
Acharya Shankara in Katha Upanishad 2.2.11 writes,
Seeing that if one be the atman of all, he may be regarded as subject
to the grief of samsara, this is said. As the sun benefiting the eye
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How does a Jnani forbearer various unpleasant events from perspective of Atman?
Gita wants us to strive for evenness of mind.
Engage yourself in action with the mind steadfast in Yoga. Abandon
attachments, O Arjuna, and be unperturbed in success and failure. This
unperturbed ...
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