Advaita Vedanta.
Bismi'llah arRahman arRahim. There is no refuge from Allah but in Him.

When I read about Advaita Vedanta it is like coming home. Here is a link to a simple good and knowledgeable article about it on the Global Oneness site.http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/VedantaSchools/id/23127 K?

What am I going to do about practice?That is the question. Twenty years with Sheikh Nazim ..twenty two in Islam ..Now what? .. Maybe I need to go into this to come out of it.Maybe I need to clarify my ideas ../mind ../ conscience ..fears?

Can I be both sufi Muslim and Advaita Vedantin?

The Truth is one , one and the same..(or not the same as soon as we start to think..but in essence..must be the same..) When we go to the ultimate end of knowledge ..which is what advaita vedanta is ..then it must be the same as what Allah truly is (in Himself ..i.e. in His esssence..) The Sheikh teaches that all of this world is just a shadow show ..(Maya ..the veil of Maya) ..the Prophet himself said "Know yourself and you will know your Lord." .. how can that be if one's true self and one's Lord are not the same thing? ..

It's the worship bit of sufism which is a bit strange ..off-putting even ..It is the outer Islamic rules and regulations which I have been trying to convince myself for so long about,that put everybody off Islam ..apart from its agressive war-like image.
I have drawn away from the Naqshbandi group for sometime now..it's methodology seeming to be to tear the ego away from one like being flayed alive ..the flesh just ripped off the bones..Frankly it is usually just too painful for me.Wether that is due to me looking in the mirror or just plain weakness I don't know. Could it be that I won't succumb to false stuff? I sometimes feel that there is too greater element of fear in the whole thing and is not fear directly connected with aggression?
I am going to post now before I lose this (the old machine is making some fairly grumpy grousy noises.)
- posted by longgone1 @ 4/19/2005 06:50:00 AM