Advta. Holy trinity

Perfect 🙏 — let’s put the Trinitarian ontology side by side with Vedantic ontology, so the resonances and differences stand out clearly.

🔹 Trinitarian Ontology (Christian Tradition)

• Ground of Being:
  
• One divine essence (ousia).
• God is not solitary but triune.
• Structure of Reality:
  
• Father, Son, Spirit = three distinct persons (hypostases).
• Relations (processions of begetting & breathing forth) constitute divine life.
• Mode of Being:
  
• “Being is communion.”
• Nothing exists in isolation; to exist = to be-in-relation.
• Goal of Life:
  
• Participation (theosis) in the triune life through love.
• Ontology is relational: essence is expressed through dynamic love.

🔹 Vedantic Ontology (Advaita & allied schools)

• Ground of Being:
  
• Brahman: sat (pure being), chit (pure consciousness), ananda (pure bliss).
• One without a second (ekam eva advitīyam).
• Structure of Reality:
  
• Ultimate reality is nondual; distinctions are māyā (dependent reality).
• The jīva (individual self) is ultimately identical with Brahman.
• Mode of Being:
  
• Sat–Chit–Ananda is self-existent, eternal, formless.
• Relations belong to vyavahāra (empirical reality), not ultimate.
• Goal of Life:
  
• Moksha = realization of nonduality; dissolution of ego into Brahman.
• Ontology is non-relational: the Real is beyond relations, forms, or attributes.

🔹 Comparison Table

Aspect	Trinitarian Ontology	Vedantic Ontology (Advaita)
Ultimate Reality	Triune God (unity-in-diversity)	Brahman (nondual, attributeless)
Mode of Being	Relational: “Being is communion”	Absolute, non-relational, transcendent
Diversity	Real & eternal (Father, Son, Spirit)	Apparent (māyā); dissolved in realization
Human Destiny	Participation in divine communion (theosis)	Liberation (moksha) = identity with Brahman
Love / Bliss	Love is constitutive of being	Bliss (ānanda) is intrinsic to Brahman
Ontology	Dynamic, interpersonal, dialogical	Static, monistic, nondual

🔹 Possible Bridges

• Sat–Chit–Ananda can be loosely compared to Father (Being) – Son (Logos/Consciousness) – Spirit (Love/Bliss).
• Both traditions affirm that the ground of reality is not material, but transcendent consciousness/being/love.
• Difference:
  
• Christianity insists on irreducible relationality (three distinct persons).
• Advaita Vedānta dissolves all distinctions in the nondual Absolute.

✅ So:

• Trinitarian ontology → being as communion, eternal relations.
• Vedantic ontology → being as nondual consciousness-bliss, beyond relation.

Would you like me to also show how Dvaita or Vishishtadvaita Vedānta (which are more theistic and relational) map more closely to the Trinitarian view than Advaita does?