[Advaita-l] ULTIMATE TRUTH

[sreenivasa murthy]

Dear friends,
Sri Rupert Spira says :    "Just  as  the  screen  is  intimately  one  
with  all  images  and,  at  the  same  time, 
 free  of  them,  so  "I",  the light  of 
 pure  Knowing,  am  one  with  all  
 experiences  and  yet  at  the  same  
 time  inherently  free  of  them."
Is  not  this  teaching  same  as  that  of  
 Bruhadaranyaka Upanishad  "asaMgO  hi  ayaM  purushaH"  
 and Sri Shankara's  statement  " AtmA  sarvagatatvAt 
 sarvAnanyatvAcca"?
The  reader  may  kindly  note  that Sri  Rupert  Spira,  
an  Englishman,  has  not  studied  any  vedanta texts  
 nor  has  read  Sri Shankara's  commentaries. 
Yet  his  statements  are  nothing  but  the  teachings 
 of  Upanishads  and  Sri  Shankara.  How  to  account  for  this?This  clearly  shows  that  Atmajnana  is  universal  andnot  the monopoly  of  a country,  sect  or  any  Matha.

With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy