[Advaita-l] Acceptance of the validity of shruti is only *faith*

[savithri devaraj]

--- Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> The statement that no one is truly removed from
> one's identity as brahman is 
> made in the same spirit as saying that in reality
> there is no one bound and 
> no one released, no bondage and no release. However,
> when one talks of 
> bandha, moksha, what is the means to moksha etc.,
> different statements are 
> made.

If there is no intellection and understanding what
that spirit is, or why Sruti says so, where is
manana/nidhidhyAsana or the use of the intellect? The
crux of avasthA-traya - the direct practical path of
finding out who we are, is, I believe, the basis of
RamaNa's method also. 

Regards,
Savithri 




 
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