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Re: Re: Could Somebody Clarify This?

From: Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar (kazhiyur-mannar.1_at_osu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 07:17:14 PDT 

Dear Sri. Sadananda

 "K. Sadananda" <sada@anvil.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>  Shree Narayananji - Pranaams - As I understand, merging with the 
> Lord is not the concept of advaita either.  Even in adviata Lord or 
> iiswara is sarvaj~naa and jiiva is alpaj~naa and there is no question 
> of merging of the two.

> adviata means non-duality while merging implies two to start with.

I may be missing something here - but if Iishwara is sarvajnana and Jeeva is 
alpajnaana, there exists at least one factor that distinguishes these two - a 
clear indication of duality. How then is it that advaita claims non-duality?


Dasan
Ramakrishnan

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