[Advaita-l] Brahma Loka the highest within creation - the Advaitic position

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 6:31 AM Sri B <sriadvaitam at gmail.com> wrote:

Subbu much appreciated for detailed replies. You mentioned: "Y*es. If one
> strives for Nirguna Atma jnana but dies before attaining, he is called Yoga
> bhrashTa and will go to punya lokas, have bhogas, and return to this world
> to continue his sadhana from where he left in the earlier birth.” *- I am
> bit confused….when we say ‘mukti', does it not mean ‘release from samsara -
> transmigration’. Where is the question of returning to this world. If a
> return is envisaged then it is no different to the concept of reward of
> going to the heaven and returning back to this world as preached in
> Christianity. It is either a ‘mukti’ or ‘transmigration’.
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If you read what I said above again, you would have no more doubts.  // If
one strives for Nirguna Atma jnana but dies before attaining,//  I have not
said about mukti.  He has not yet become mukta.

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> Secondly are you able to elaborate on the gradations, I am just curious.
> When you say depends on spiritual practices, what are you implying, are you
> saying the belief system i.e. Vaishnava vs Shivasam?
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Some texts may perhaps give the particular type of bhakti practices that
bring the particular type of salokya, sarupya, etc. type of phalam.  One
need not be a Vaishnava or any other; anyone who has a particular IshTa
devata and does bhakti, till death, he will get those destined fruits.

regards
subbu

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