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Nick, you response has many resizings and such. I cannot deal with all that so I am unable to respond to individual points. It seems you are using linguistics to define the term Parabrahman, rather that Shankara. Here is the wiki: So, the Supreme God is Brahman. The Supreme God as a...

Yes, please... Why? What troubles? Why not have the best of both worlds, especially when integrating the religions? I think: God within the Father is impersonal: Allaah. The One God. The Father is personal, and we can "see" him as such, when we see the Son. The Holy Spirit is God...

What is the tradition with this interpretation? Are you claiming this is Vedanta? I have never ever heard of it. I ask out of interest. Honestly, if there are other monotheistic Hindu traditions, we should integrate them. Nameste.

If the soul consists of the two gender halves, then for sure one could invite Mary, as the root representation of the Holy Spirit, into the heart. The exact same as inviting the Holy Spirit into your heart. Blessings, Rob

I do! It is a disaster. The poor are still oppressed, more so by relative comparison than before, as the rich think they rule the world. The last will be first.

Yes, no more slavery, oppression, child-labor, industrial war, genocide, ... How about in the West, where governments slowly strip freedom from people by increasing regulated behavior for non harmful actions while increasing state debt to the point where the house of cards WILL fall. They are...

I have a theory, related to God as Omnipresent and the foundation of my belief that all monotheistic religions are true. It is the bridal chamber. From Ephesians 4: The head of a woman is the man and the head of a man is Christ and the head of Christ is God. So, we are all connected to God...

I suppose my core question regarding the personal God is whether Ishvara is Lord Vishnu? There are so many different models in Hinduism. I had thought Ishvara was the reflection of Brahman in Maya, and that Ishvara then creates Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Perhaps Krishna gets one to Vishnu is...

right you are! thanks!

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In discussions with many Christians, here in America, it seems that Christ is in the place of God, rather than being a way to God. For sure Christ is within each of us, especially when invited, but we still have the other two aspects of the Trinity as One. The holy spirit can baptize us and...

Did Christianity ever have an impersonal conception of God? He is considered impersonal, to my understanding. I tried, but the links blocked the message. To my understanding, in Vedanta, Parabrahman is the personal Godhead, or Brahmān. Brahman is the impersonal God within which is...

Fair enough. Still, it would be nice to post some links... btw, I just found this, which I have not read: (archive.org/stream/Sarvepalli.Radhakrishnan-Brahma.Sutra-The.Philosophy.of.Spiritual.Life/Radhakrishnan-Brahma.Sutra-The.Philosophy.of.Spiritual.Life#page/n0/mode/2up) Well, is God a...

It is an issue of putting it into words that other Christians understand. Plus, I donot know enough about Christian Philosophy, myself. It is the same as resolving other Hindu gods, such as Krishna, Vishnu and Brahma and Shiva into the personal Godhead (Ishvata) then to the impersonal God...

Hi Thomas, I am not precisely sure what you mean about the second being relative to the first. Could you explain further? I do think that the first is true, from God's perspective. I am more concerned with my perspective. I found the book you refer too, but I cannot afford it at this time...

I can hopefully posts links, now... In talking from the progression from atman to Atman, one must come face to face with Ishvara. As Atman, one is One, so it is Barhman at that point. in my understanding.

Thanks! Here is a link to a thread I started...

Here are some good wiki links: My exposure was through Vivekananda: Advaita Vedanta Allah is Brahman Brahman as the personal God is Ishvara The selfless Self is Atman The Brahman as consciousness in Sankhya (a dualistic school of Hindu philosophy as compared to Vedanta) is Purusha and the...

Here is a starting point to a discussion on Advaita Vedanta. The Advaita varietal is split into Strict Non-Dualism (All is One) and Qualified Non-Dualism (All is One from the perspective of Brahman, but is the Many from the perspective of objective reality). I pretty much go with the second in...

Thanks. Kinda quiet in here. Like a monastery...