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Why Does the Avadhuta Gita 1.36 say that The Absolute truth is devoid of Both Duality and Nonduality?
In my opinion, it's talking about the Nirgunattva still Sagunattva and neti neti, contradictory traits of Brahman which is beyond the grasp of anyone or anything.
Maitreya Upanishad in its Tritiya ...
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Why Does the Avadhuta Gita 1.36 say that The Absolute truth is devoid of Both Duality and Nonduality?
Garuda Purana says the same thing.
Reality beyond both Advaita and Dvaita
Some seek for the knowledge of non-dual Brahman (i.e. Brahman without
Maya) and some for that of the Dual (Brahman with Maya)....
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Is Rama giving contradictory justifications for killing Vali?
https://www.valmikiramayan.net/utf8/kish/sarga18/kishkindharoman18.htm#Verse40
As noted by the translator on valmikiramayan.net, the reasoning offered by Rama ('you are an animal so I can kill you ...
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What does knowing one’s soul mean?
The use of the English word self or Self is often used by translators for the Sanskrit 'atman' which has no corresponding English translation. It was first suggested by German translators in the 19th ...
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Is Rama giving contradictory justifications for killing Vali?
Rama is not implying that human's morals, i.e he is not applying human dharma to vanaras. It was Sugreeva who did.
In sargas 8 & 10 of Kishkinda Kanda (later too), Sugreeva tells Rama multiple ...
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Is Spinoza's philosophy the same as advaita or vishistadvaita philosophy of India?
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'Indian' textiles, muslins were found wrapped around mummies in Egyptian pyramids dating back to 3000 B.C. My thesis is that ...
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Is Spinoza's philosophy the same as advaita or vishistadvaita philosophy of India?
Prof Muller in 3 Lectures on Vedanta Philosophy, page 123 writes,
Strange as this Vedanta philosophy must appear at first sight to most
of us, you can hardly have failed to discover some striking
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