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I'm advaita vedanta pilled but certain personal experience (of the supernatural kind) have led me to believe that bhakti is the best path to God, not jnana. I also believe that all liberation is won by undeserved (though some deserve more than others) Grace from the Supreme Lord, because finite merit (karma) cannot produce infinite good fruit (and moksha is where bondage to karma ends, it is not the fruit of karma though some are born better predisposed to experience God on account of their karma, but it comes moreso on account of Gods mercy). I also believe that while full liberation produces siddhis and practical omniscience, it does not produce omnipotence nor does it produce complete knowledge of Gods mysteries. I believe the full fruit of moksha doesnt come until after death even for the jivanmukta, and that full fruit is total union with God.
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I dislike this!! 1. bhakti yoga is more than loving hearing about God, its loving God so much you want to be close to God. 2. a perfect love of God can only be cultivated by knowing the Brahman within, which is the Atman. samadhi is only without object because it is the unitive state, and all is Brahman! Brahman is the object and the subject, and both are one! 3. for bhkatas, wanting to be liberated is an expression of wanting to be closer to God. it is thus not selfish. if they want to BE God, it is selfish and demoniacal. if they want Union with God for Gods sake without a hint of selfness, it is not selfish. 4. I would argue that since the mind proceeds from ahamkara (the ego), desiring to be lost in sweet thoughts of God can actually be selfish.
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I also didnt like Huxley's seeming denigration of "carnal love" for "christs humanity" and a related denigration of love for any avatar as being inferior to love of an unmanifest Godhead. its puritanical.
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isnt it funny how so many hindu theologians who believe in duality and the inequality of souls claim to be avatars of some kind?
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how can the bliss of loving God be greater than the bliss of Gods own ananda? aren't they both infinite beyond all numbering, for Gods love is infinite and to know the atman is to have Gods own heart? (or the heart of a Buddha) makes me think these bhaktas werent fully enlightened... questions...
I do however agree that lack of concern with liberation is incredibly noble!
I do however agree that lack of concern with liberation is incredibly noble!
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huxley seemed to claim that the Mahayanist way of preferring neither nibbana nor samsara and thus knowing Suchness/the buddha-womb as all things is superior, my current bhakti yoga book claims bhakti yoga reveals a higher reality than jnana yoga or karma yoga because it creates an ecstatic love for the ishvara which is beyond the atman known in all yoga. who's right? hmmm? neither i think! there are many paths to full enlightenment, and all produce the same fruit--unity with God upon death.
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Nature is Amazing ☘️
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While the infertile tawny owl was away from her nest, caretakers swapped her unviable eggs for orphaned chicks.
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reading this book is interesting sure (especially with regard to christian mysticism) but I wouldve gotten a lot more out of reading the bhagavad gita again I think. or the principal upanishads.
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muslims who revere the first three generations of muslims < muslims who revere the sufi saints
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