> > Fer chirssakes, it's almost a direct quote > > from the Mandukya Karika by Gaudapada! > > Vaj wrote: > Actually it was originally taken from the Rig > Veda, as numerous movement sources attest... > Maybe so, Vaj, but the Rig Veda doesn't mention anything about a 'transcendental field' and the non-dual absolutism of Advaita.
So, where, really, do the notions of 'Consciousness Only' derive? According to S. Vidyasankar, the notion of Ultimate Reality being Pure Consciousness comes from the Upanishads and from the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Shankaracharya, not from the Rig Veda. "...the vedAnta view of non-duality, phenomena are possible only due to the essential reality of the Atman, which is pure consciousness." Read more: Gaudapada: http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/gaudapada.html "The mani-fold universe and the individual self, which considers itself bound, are both superimposed upon that Transcendental Reality which is brahman..." Advaita Vedanta: http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/ad-phil.html
