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Some of the world’s earliest writings suggest an unexpected goal for ambitious minds. Nearly 3,000 years ago, the ancient Indian authors of certain Upanishads (‘special teachings’) exhorted readers to find a fabled knowledge. When one knows that which is ‘woven upon the Whole – he becomes the Whole’. He ‘thinks of what has not been thought of before, and perceives what has not been perceived before’. Thus, comprehending the widest reaches, he is able to ‘conquer the whole universe’.
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DENNIS HOPPER
Adi Shankaracharya did not come up with Advaita Vedanta. In his writings he references his gurus, most notably Gaudapada and Govindapada, calling them “knowers of the tradition,” or in other words, “those who know the meaning of the Veda.”
Shankaracharya, then, was not inventing a new philosophy. Rather, he was reiterating what he had been taught by a lineage of teachers who had full faith in the veracity of the Veda and believed that the seemingly disjointed and contradictory sections of the Veda were validated and harmonized by a single message: Advaita, the idea that reality is one alone, without a second. The notion that reality, despite appearances to the contrary, is actually an infinite field of unchanging, eternal, non-dual (advaita), pure consciousness.
From the perspective of Adi Shankaracharya and his gurus, yes, Advaita Vedanta comes from the Veda. And its teachings are the ultimate meaning of the Veda.
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PRAGMATIC AGNOSTICISM - ANATTA
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the genius of great religions
the genius of the great religions is that they have created inspiring, uplifting, highly useful & functional meaning-systems that serve as excellent orienting mechanisms within ‘the world’ — and even point beyond themselves toward the Living Mystery, for those who are called toward that exploration
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