<!--QuoteBegin-gangajal+Nov 10 2004, 12:11 AM-->QUOTE(gangajal @ Nov 10 2004, 12:11 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Ramakrishna agrees with Shankara that the Advaitic experience is the highest experience. There are some people, however, who do not care about that highest experience and want to retain some difference with Brahman. These people who want to retain some difference stay in Brahmalok for the rest of this cycle and are released when this cycle ends.
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Here is a quote from Swami Vidyaranya's Panchadasi. (Chapter 2, Discrimination of the Five Elements.)
http://www.celextel.org/ebooks/other_boo...hadasi.htm
27. As a man who ha fallen into the sea is bewildered and loses the power of exercising his senses, so they too become afraid and nervous when they hear of the Reality as one only without parts.
28. The teacher Gaudapada speaks of the great fear of some yogins who are devoted to Brahman with form, regarding the objectless super-conscious state.
29. This identification with the ungrasped and ungraspable Reality is difficult to achieve. They are indeed seeing fear in the fearless.
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Here is a quote from Swami Vidyaranya's Panchadasi. (Chapter 2, Discrimination of the Five Elements.)
http://www.celextel.org/ebooks/other_boo...hadasi.htm
27. As a man who ha fallen into the sea is bewildered and loses the power of exercising his senses, so they too become afraid and nervous when they hear of the Reality as one only without parts.
28. The teacher Gaudapada speaks of the great fear of some yogins who are devoted to Brahman with form, regarding the objectless super-conscious state.
29. This identification with the ungrasped and ungraspable Reality is difficult to achieve. They are indeed seeing fear in the fearless.