Pip: If you have ever wondered whether Jesus and Shankara were basically saying the same thing and just needed a better translator, Dippack Mistri has thoughts. Mara: This episode goes deep into one piece that maps Biblical phrases onto Vedantic Mahavakyas, tracing what non-dualism looks like across two very different scriptural traditions. Pip: Let’s startContinue reading “Podcast Episode: The Biblical “Mahavakyas” and the Vedantic Mahavakyas”
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Podcast Episode: EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA
Pip: There’s a post on Dippack Mistri’s site that opens with Moses, takes a hard left through ancient Sanskrit, and lands somewhere most legal scholars probably weren’t expecting. Mara: The territory today is justice, karma, and what a phrase most people think they understand actually means when you follow it back to its source. Pip:Continue reading “Podcast Episode: EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA”
EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA
What did Moses’ commandment mean? What does the world of internet surfing make of this riddle? Here we go: The phrase “eye for an eye” comes from laws attributed to Moses in the Hebrew Bible, especially in books like Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. What it meant originally: “Eye for an eye” (Latin: lex talionis, orContinue reading “EYE FOR AN EYE: KARMA”
Seeing God As He Really Is
Let us look at the sovereign statement from a conceptual or lowe perspective SAT-CHIT-ANANDA. I also know That Which Is as SAT-CHIT-ANANTA. In English, BEING/EXISTENCE/LIFE-ABSTRACT INTELLECT/CONSCIOUSNESS-BLISS/HAPPY/PEACE/INFINITE/BOUNDLESS/ETERNAL. What do these concepts/attributes mean? They mean “That Which Is” is neither ASAT nor ACHIT nor DUKKHA. Nor SIMITAM. In English, That Which Is is neither non-being/non-existent/insentient/lifeless nor unconsciousness/comatosed/inertContinue reading “Seeing God As He Really Is”