
" I thought I can just give a very simple account of what is Advaita. We all know ourselves as individuals and there is the world of living and non living things, inanimate objects and the whole cosmos. We constantly interact with the world. Many times we sense that this interaction is unpredictable. It means, the way we do things and the way the results come, it is not a straight forward relationship. So we find that there are many unknown factors. So all these unknown factors, we group together and call it God. Since calling God as 'it', doesnt make it feel good, we think of God as a person who is all powerful, and praying to him or her will help me to deal with the world. So there are 3 entities, namely, I the individual, the rest of creation which we call world and the other unknown, God. Advaita establishes that all these 3 are not totally different entities, but is is one entity only which is called Brahman. An analogy is, how sugar being the basic substance, can appear in various shapes and sizes, but in essence is one only. Shankaracharya establishes that this is what all the upanishads, bhagavad gita, brahma sutras are telling in one voice. How this conclusion is arrived at, forms the subject matter of vedanta."
Thanks a lot Amma for this write up :)
Some related links:
Arsha Vidya Gurukulam is an institute for traditional study of Advaitha vedanta, Sanskrit, Yoga etc. check this link for more
http://www.arshavidya.org/
Arsha Vidya Gurukulam satsangs - Read and Listen to satsangs by various gurujis.
http://www.avgsatsang.org/
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