…same way in Hindu thought, but something deceptively like it is in Hindu thought, which causes the confusion. For example, Shankara, who is the great interpreter of the upanishads in the tradition of interpretation which is called the advaita vedanta, the…

…can't bite your own teeth, you can't touch the tip of this finger with the tip of this finger. This is the principle. Shankara explains it beautifully in his commentary on the kena upanishad, where he says that that which is the knower, the ground of…

…can't bite your own teeth you can't touch the tip of this finger with the tip of this finger. This is the principle. Shankara explains it beautifully in his commentary on the kena upanishad, where he says that that which is the knower, the ground of all…

…believe that there is one, on whose authority do you believe this? You say, oh such and such a teacher, buddha jesus Shankara the upanishads said that we have a higher self and I believe it. Catholics sometimes say they believe their religion because…

…yoga. It doesn't go through all those chakra things. It's a very direct yoga represented by vedanta, by the doctrines of Shankara. Then there's bhakti yoga, which is usually a vaishnava thing. Vaishnavas are the worshippers of Vishnu and they like to…

…same way in Hindu thought, but something deceptively like it is in Hindu thought which causes the confusion. For example um Shankara Uh who is the great interpreter of the upanishads in the tradition of interpretation which is called the advaita vedanta the…

…witcher and this guy spells it out. So in the same way you get Nagarjuna saying that the ultimate reality is shunyata voidness, so Shankara gets at it where he says that which is the knower or the knowing in everything can never itself be an object of…

…was the apophatic way, agree completely with the language of the vedantists. You might think that Dionysius was actually Shankara the great advaita or non dualist vedanta interpreter. Actually Shankara and st Thomas Aquinas are just about contemporaries and…

…of the vedantists. You might think that Dionysius was actually Shankara the great advaita or non dualist vedanta interpreter. Actually Shankara and st Thomas Aquinas are just about contemporaries and if they had ever been able to meet they would have…

…able to meet they would have understood each other perfectly. They talked the same language, they reasoned in the same way, but Shankara went a little further over the precipice in not feeling the necessity to cling to any fixed conception of the divine.…

…spirituality, and I think this arises in certain schools of thought from a wrong interpretation of the great commentator Shankara. Shankara and Ramanuja are probably the two of the greatest Medieval Indian Commentators on the upanishads and the traditional…

…and I think this arises in certain schools of thought from a wrong interpretation of the great commentator Shankara. Shankara and Ramanuja are probably the two of the greatest Medieval Indian Commentators on the upanishads and the traditional scriptures,…

…real again has no basis within the divine reality, which is the sole thing that exists. Now this is an interpretation of Shankara which I believe to be fundamentally wrong. I don't believe that Shankara can correctly be interpreted as saying that the world…

…thing that exists. Now this is an interpretation of Shankara which I believe to be fundamentally wrong. I don't believe that Shankara can correctly be interpreted as saying that the world of sense experience which this to my mind wrong interpretation of his…

…identifies with maya. I don't believe that this is the way he ought to be understood, maya. I can think of passages in Shankara where maya is given a much more positive sense where the world is not to be considered identical with brahman in the sense…

…the dramatic view in India in particular, and although it's interesting to note that, say in the writings of the great philosopher Shankara and others you very often encounter the analogy of the potter or of pots as representing the world. The roles are…

…spirituality, and I think this arises in certain schools of thought from a wrong interpretation of the great commentator Shankara. Shankara and Ramanuja are probably the two of the greatest Medieval Indian Commentators on the upanishads and the traditional…

…and I think this arises in certain schools of thought from a wrong interpretation of the great commentator Shankara. Shankara and Ramanuja are probably the two of the greatest Medieval Indian Commentators on the upanishads and the traditional scriptures,…

…again, has no basis within the divine reality which is the sole thing that exists. Now this is an interpretation of Shankara which I believe to be fundamentally wrong. I don't believe that Shankara can correctly be interpreted as saying that the world…

…thing that exists. Now this is an interpretation of Shankara which I believe to be fundamentally wrong. I don't believe that Shankara can correctly be interpreted as saying that the world of sense experience which this to my mind wrong interpretation of his…

…identifies with maya. I don't believe that this is the way he ought to be understood, maya. I can think of passages in Shankara where maya is given a much more positive sense, where the world is not to be considered identical with brahman in the sense…

…witcher and this guy spells it out. So in the same way you get Nagarjuna saying that the ultimate reality is shunyata voidness. So Shankara gets at it where he says that which is the knower or the knowing in everything can never itself be an object of…

…heebie jeebies you get butterflies in the stomach, anxiety, traumas and all kinds of things. But this is all explained by Shankara, the Great Hindu Commentator on the upanishads, the great master of the non dualistic doctrine of the universe when he said:…

…else which we can't conceive at all. Dionysus the Areopagite called it the luminous darkness. Nagarjuna called it shunyata, the void, Shankara called it brahman, that which can only, of which nothing at all can be said, neti neti, beyond all conception…