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Viva_Daddy

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Thu Sep-29-11 02:33 PM
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3. I think the reason Advaita has so few "followers" is that...

there are no "scriptures" one can point to and so no "proof-texts" or "dogma" to dispute about it. This does not, however, prevent people from disputing various ideas about what Advaita or "non-dual" means. Humans love to dispute and discuss and language allows for all that. Language, however, cannot "explain" or even correctly discuss non-duality, for language is inherently dualistic. That is the great dilemma Advaita advocates face when trying to discuss it.

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