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    Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Dear all,
    Could somebody suggest me a good book or articles to read about mind and reality from the perspective of Advaita. In Vivekacudamani .. Sri Sankaracharya essentially says mind creates your reality which is a false reality and only Brahman is real. So I would like to know what actually is reality and how mind does it from Advaitic point of view

    Thanks in advance.
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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=9228

    Read the above article which summarize is exactly your question.
    Man-naathah Shri Jagan-nathah Mat-guru-shri jagad-guruhu.
    Mad-atma sarva-bhutatma tasmai Shri Gurave Namah.


    My Lord is the Lord of Universe; My teacher is the teacher of the
    entire universe; and my Self is the Self of all. My salutations at the lotus-feet
    of such a Guru, who has revealed such knowledge to me.

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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Thanks anirvan,
    It's a good summary of Advaita but I need something which is like Vivekacudamani with more detailed views on reality and mind. Sri Shankaracharya explains but for mere mortals like me it's hard to understand, so looking for an exclusive treatise on reality according to Advaita
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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Namaste RDG,

    I am not sure what you are looking for. However, if you are looking for logical/scientific way of understanding this, you may have a look at the follwing thread, posts No. 156,160 & 161.

    http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/sho...?t=846&page=16

    http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/sho...?t=846&page=17

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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Namaste devotee,
    I have gone through your posts on Mahavakyas on Advaita but it's tough to follow because of derailed flow, could you please provide me the sources from which you posted on Advaita?

    Thanks,
    realdemigod
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    Namaste RDG,

    Quote Originally Posted by realdemigod View Post
    Namaste devotee,
    I have gone through your posts on Mahavakyas on Advaita but it's tough to follow because of derailed flow, could you please provide me the sources from which you posted on Advaita?
    I think I have given the sources names in my posts already wherever specific quotes are there. However, the source is not one but it is based on many sources, e.g.

    a) 108 Upanishads (almost all main Upanishads) --- These are the main sources of all my posts.
    b) Shankara's commentaries on eight Upanishads
    c) Patanjali Yogasutras
    d) Gaudapad KArika on Mandukya Upanishad
    e) Advaita SAdhana
    f) Ramana Maharishi's teachings in various collection of talks with him
    g) "Man's Eternal Quest" by Paramhansa Yogananda and almost all his other books
    h) Teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj
    i) Teachings of Swami Vivekananda
    etc. etc.

    The list is still longer. So, I don't know if that helps you.

    Logical analysis and scientific correlations if not attributed to anyone are mostly my own thoughts.

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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    The truth of Advaita can be proven in many ways.

    Textual exegesis

    Every school of Hindu philosophy believes it alone provides the correct and authentic purport of the Vedas. You can read Shankara's commentaries on the Upanishads, Brahmasutras, Bhagavad Gita to understand Shankara's perspective.

    Logical analysis

    Gaudapada came up with the following dialectic to prove the truth of Advaita.

    What is perceived is an illusion, like a dream.
    We perceive in the waking state.
    So, the waking state is an illusion.

    The idea here is that the illusion of the waking state will be clear and proven once Brahman is realized.

    Yet another argument used to prove the truth of Advaita goes into depths of what is perceived in reality.

    Advaita claims that the first perception that we have is undifferentiated awareness, non-conceptual consciousness. Any perception of difference FOLLOWS this first pure consciousness. Hence, the pure awareness that we have is of Brahman where there is no difference between subject and object.

    Advaita shifts the burden of proof onto the opponent to try and prove the existence of difference.

    For instance, if a Nyaya realist claims that a pot is different from a cloth, the Advaitin asks the Nyaya whether difference is the very essence of a pot or if it is an attribute of the pot. The Advaitin will then show that in either case, we are launched into the logical fallacy of circularity or a vicious infinite regress.

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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Namaste devotee,
    Thanks for sharing all the sources.

    Thanks wundermonk may be it will take me some rigorous reading to understand clearly Advaita
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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Namaste RDG,

    Quote Originally Posted by realdemigod View Post
    I have gone through your posts on Mahavakyas on Advaita but it's tough to follow because of derailed flow, could you please provide me the sources from which you posted on Advaita?
    I think your observation needed some solution on how to find way in a "derailed flow". There is a way to keep the flow while reading those threads. The posts which are in bigger font size (=3) and colorful are purposely made so to distinguish them as main thoughts of the thread from the discussion part which are in usual smaller fonts. This arrangement has been followed in all "Aham Brahmasi" series of threads.

    May be that helps.

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    Re: Advaita on Mind and Reality

    Namaste devotee,
    Thanks for your suggestion.
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