Sri Ramakrishna’s Divine Descent, Part 2 #304

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.

The consummate nondualist looks upon Brahman, the mind, and the world in an entirely different way than other beings do. This fact is clarified here in this rare offering of how the mature transcendentalist views all facets of life, always doing so from the perspective of Eternal Life. The Unchanging Reality is the polestar here, which sees everything in relativity revolving around It, and not the other way around, as others see it. This tough but true scrutiny of the Truth-seer’s unique and all-pervasive realization is the very substance of which Advaita Vedanta is made.