Shankara’s Vivekachudamani Siddhanta #309

If you have ever found yourself lost in explaining the various attitudes that people have and hold as their personal perspective on the existence of God, this dharma art wisdom chart gathers together these opinions into a group for helpful inspection. Who is the atheist; who is the agnostic? What is ecumenism, and how does electicism operate? Where does secularism and intellectualism fall in this wide scope? And most importantly, what is this new and redolent breeze called Universality that is blowing on the horizon of human thinking? Amazingly enough, Webster’s dictionary holds definitions for all of these perspectives, all gathered conveniently here for deep scrutiny and, hopefully, settling upon a wise path and a winsome way.

In addition to certain fast and firm principles, Advaita, Nonduality, also has several well-mapped out avenues that lead to its timely consummation in the human mind. There is the longer, slower ascent of sythesizing the Yogas; there is the path of outright negation that simply strips away all that is illusory; and there is a pathless path uitlized by past masters when they choose to embody for some important reason. Whatever the road inward may be, or entail, a copious and well laid out map is a helpful and needful tool for those few who are entertaining the highest spiritual vision, and beyond.