Vedanta - Discussion Forum I (introductory))

[HareKrishna]

You complicate things that you are not understand.Sometimes is better to keep it simple.

Vedanta school was a pretty successful tentative to unify the hindu-vedic thinking .

It reintroduce the notion of Absolute(Brahman) after buddhists replace the the notion of absolute whit the notion of void(sunya).

The Brahman is the Ultimate Principle also name the One,Tao,Tian,God...

The human mind can reach 2 final conclusions about Brahman

-it have attributes-qualities and in this case we ca name it The Infinite,God ,and this opinion is shared by vishishtadvaita(advaita whit qualites),bhagavata school ,krishnaism,vishnuism(an least some part of it) .



-it has no attributes-qualities and in this case we cand call it The Void,The Unknown,and this opinion is shared by buddhists and smarta-advaita and maybe even by taoists .

-of course there was an old bheda-abheda school not to be confused whit acintya bheda abheda school of gaudya krishnaism) and aslo its a current in neo-vedanta and new age but its ussualy disregarded by the up-mentiones schools because Brahman whit qualities is superior to Brahman whitout qualites ,either the oppuesed ,but they cant be on the equal stand.



Added-The king way is to destroy those who don't agree whit you as the famous story about the meeting of a philosopher whit a king.Christo-muslims follow the king way and so they are terrorists .



advaita mean that the slf is the same whit the absolute(in this school whitout qualites)

vishishtadvaita have the same opinion but adage that the absolute has qualites

dvaita simply say that the self is not the same whit the absolute .



There are monotheist schools that identify the absolute whit a single god.

krishnaism say that Krishna is the supreme god and all other gods are emanated by him.

Vishnuism say that Vishnu is the supreme god and all other gods are emanated by him.

Ganapaty say that Ganesh is the supreme god and all other gods are emanated by him.

Shivaism say that Shiva is the supreme god and all other gods are emanated by him.

Shaktism say that Shakti is the supreme god and all other gods are emanated by her.



Unlike indians today ,the ancient indian philosophers greatly insult eachother and i think is a healthy thing(as long as they dont get phisical) and this is because they were obsesed whit the Truth(which i think is a good thing for a philosopher as long as dont kill the rival philosopher).