Is late Pope right saying advaita is atheism (Godless)?

[Guest guest]

Here is excerpt from Wikipedia:

 

Advaita is not about any worship of any kind of deity, not even a

singular all powerful supreme being/Ishwara/God. It is about realising

the self i.e. Atman as the Brahman itself which is apparently

manifested eternally and simultaneously into animate or inanimate.

This realization is limited and/or inhibited by lack of knowledge and

discrimination i.e. Jnana and this verily is the foundation of

non-duality (Advaita). Brahman is described as neti neti (na iti na

iti - not this, not this or not so, not so) in the Upanishads.

 

Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita

[Guest guest]

An interesting query it begs then what is god and who is the pope

and what can really be understood in any erudite investigation into any

enlightened cannon of any revelatory ambiguous or non ambiguous teaching

without having direct experience

soooooooooooooooooo

for the sake of simplicity

QUERY

How many Popes does it take to turn on the LIGHT?

 

and will the Void turn IT off??????????

moreover Coke shoul d open centers for humanity to access the VOid

 

MOKsha

[Guest guest]

Dear Anne,

 

It's true. Back in 1992 - 1993 late Pope John Paul paid a rare visit

to Sri Lanka, which is primarily Buddhist (as is Thailand), and

discussed his view to the media that the GOAL or Buddhism or to attain

and enter Nirvana (the void), where there is no concept of anything or

personal reality. Just empty VOID). Thus he pointed out that in the

void (as in Advaita Hinduism) there is no intelligence or God, the

Supreme Person. And a GOD-less state is by definition nastick or

atheist. This created an uproar all over the Buddhist world, who did

not like being called atheist (even though they are). According to the

Pope " nirvan " or Sayuja Mukti of Advaita are both, in fact, Godless

philosophy or atheism, and, if possible, would be spiritual suicide.

Just see " atheism " in the dictonary, and tell me where is God?

 

---Y/s, Richard

 

sacred-objects , anne thakur <annethakur wrote:

>

> An interesting query it begs then what is god and who is the pope

> and what can really be understood in any erudite investigation into

any enlightened cannon of any revelatory ambiguous or non ambiguous

teaching without having direct experience

> soooooooooooooooooo

> for the sake of simplicity

> QUERY

> How many Popes does it take to turn on the LIGHT?

>

> and will the Void turn IT off??????????

> moreover Coke shoul d open centers for humanity to access the VOid

>

> MOKsha

>