[Advaita-l] devotion in advaita

Jaldhar H. Vyas jaldhar at braincells.com
Tue Jun 12 22:53:47 CDT 2012


On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Suresh wrote:

> Could you please explain this a bit more? People often say jnana is the 
> foundation, and that bhakti merely helps purify us, and so on.

Be careful of words like "merely"  I think the biggest mistake people make 
about Advaita Vedanta is to take a reductionist approach.  One is 
destroying delusions yes, but destroying them by expanding them not 
eliminating them.  This is bhakti and the endpoint of bhakti is jnana.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>



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