[Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path

[Aditya Kumar]

I partly agree with you. However Ramana himself is/was a liberal practitioner. Basically he is saying that he approached the whole Hindu concept of Moksha through personal experience and not by scriptural authority. In that sense, the practicality of such personal experience would be similar to all religions, to all cultures etc because you need not put faith on validity of scriptures at all. Hence they claim it is non dogmatic as it is experiential knowledge and not something derived from some scriptures.  However there is a whole other debate whether Advaitic Moksha is experiential or cognitive. Further, a Hindu will always claim the ShAstra yOnitvat of the Advaitic truth, hence binding into a religious belief.
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On Fri, 10/8/18, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path
 To: "Aditya Kumar" <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Date: Friday, 10 August, 2018, 4:17 AM
 
 No one has any
 issues with giving advaitic interpretations to selected
 statements such as "The kingdom of heaven is within you
 " or "anaa al haqq" etc etc. But that can
 hardly amount to "endorsing  Christianity," with
 all its the central dogmas of those texts. Also we have such
 interpretations are endorsed by only a very small  liberal
 section of practitioners of those traditions. They are only
 a advaitic Hindu interpretation of the Bible rather than a
 Christian interpretation of that very text. In fact we will
 be able to see occasional shades of Advaita in so many
 places and can empathise with those. What of that? That does
 not mean Sri Ramana puts all religious views on the same
 level. 
 
 
 On Fri 10
 Aug, 2018, 9:21 AM Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l, <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 wrote:
 Even
 Ramana Maharshi has no issues with christianity. In fact he
 endorses it because the Advaitic concept is beautifully
 explained in the Bible. Pls see link below :
 
 
 
 http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=5060.0
 
 
 
 
 
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 On Thu, 9/8/18, Kalyan via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 wrote:
 
 
 
  Subject: [Advaita-l]  The 'Snake-and-ladder' game
 - The Spiritual path
 
  To: "A. Discussion Group for Advaita Vedanta"
 <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 
  Cc: "Kalyan" <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>
 
  Date: Thursday, 9 August, 2018, 8:09 PM
 
 
 
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