[Advaita-l] ULTIMATE TRUTH

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Thank you Akhilesh ji for letting us know that Rupert Spira had familiarity
with the Advaita teaching through a student of the Shankaracharya.

The way Sreenivasa Murthy ji asserted that Rupert Spira had not done any
Advaita study, I thought he definitely knew Rupert personally!!

I also noted the following, from the net.

"Spira is married to Ellen Emmett, a therapist and *yoga instructor in the
non-dual tradition* of Kashmir Shaivism
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_Shaivism>."

I admit it's speculative here given that Kashmir Shaivism is not identical
to Shaankara vedAnta but I do wonder ....because we do find the spouse
becoming the Guru as in the brihadaranyaka Upanishad!

Om
Raghav


On Tue 16 Apr, 2019, 10:13 AM Akilesh Ayyar via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Actually, Rupert Spira has been very familiar with Vedanta for a long time.
>
> From the bio on his website (
> https://non-duality.rupertspira.com/about/rupert-spira):
>
> "Rupert Spira first came across the poetry of Rumi at the age of fifteen in
> 1975. Shortly afterwards he learned the Mevlevi Turning, a sacred Sufi
> dance of movement, prayer and meditation, at Colet House in London.
>
> Soon after this he met his first teacher, Dr. Francis Roles, who was
> himself a student of Shantananda Saraswati the Shankaracharya of the North
> of India,. Under Dr. Roles’ guidance he learned mantra meditation and was
> introduced to the classical system of Advaita or Non-Duality. This formed
> the foundation of his interest and practice for the next 25 years."
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:33 AM sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
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