On Advaita [Non-Duality]
Posted by mu on January 2, 2008
Advaita:
Non-duality is the doctrine that nothing exists apart from the Spirit, but everything is a form assumed by the Spirit.
“The doctrine of Non-duality, taught by the ancient Rishis… is the simplest as well as the most profound, being the ultimate truth beyond all the complexities of cosmology."
"Non-duality means that only the Absolute is. The entire cosmos exists within the Absolute, having no intrinsic reality but merely manifesting the Absolute which, however, remains eternally unchanged and unmanifest, as the people and events in a man’s dream exist within him and have no reality apart from him and yet add nothing to him by their creation and subtract nothing from him by their disappearance. This means that the Absolute is the Self of the cosmos and of every being…” [Osborne, pg. 81].
“Some may fear that the doctrine of the One Self deprives them of a Personal God to Whom they can pray, but there is no need for such fear, because
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