The Real World

[Allan Curry]

Namaste

laxman shenoy writes:

>The meaning we have for the world "real" in vedanta is not the same as
>the
>english meaning. In our discussions we are trying to assign the english
>meaning to the vedantic concept and thus running around in circles.
>
>The physical world exists...the trees, the earth and the galaxy.
>

Given that Gaudapada says, "This is the highest Truth, that nothing is ever
born" did you perhaps mean to say "The physical world *seems* to exist" ?
..... "the trees, the earth and the galaxy *seem* to exist" ???

I always thought it was the world that was represented by the snake in the
snake-in-the-rope analogy. Please, Advaita Vedanta experts, clear up this
confusion... Is it true in Advaita Vedanta that "The physical world exists"
???

HUMOR=ON

Maybe God was misquoted in the Jewish bible's book of Genesis and actually
said, " IF there was light..."   instead of "Let there be light"!  :-)
       ^^^^
HUMOR=OFF

-Allan Curry