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advaita vedanta as I understand it is the actual scientific approach to consciousness, as it focuses strictly on experience.
by arnoooooo 7y ago
advaita vedanta as I understand it is the actual scientific approach to consciousness, as it focuses strictly on experience.
- jaldhar 7y agoAdvaita Vedanta accepts six pramanas (means of justified knowledge). Pratyaksha (sensory perception), anumana (inference), shabda (the words of the Vedas), upamana (comparison), arthapatti (presumption), and abhava (negation). Experience (anubhava) is NOT pramana.
- arnoooooo 7y agoI meant experience in the form of sensory perception, followed by inference and comparison. I suppose you mean experience that would be tinted by interpretation ?
- jaldhar 7y agoUltimately all experiences are mediated by ego (ahamkara) Advaita Vedantas says that ahamkara is a delusion caused by maya (delusion and imperfect cognition) so Brahman can only be known by a negative way I.e. “de-experiencing” all false cognitions. The Upanishad says Neti Neti (“[it is] not [this] [and] not [that]”) What remains is Brahman. Does anything remain? This is the big point of contention between Buddhists and Advaitins. We say there is, that say there isn’t. However the Mahayana concept of Tathagatagarbha does come to a similar conclusion in a roundabout way.
- arnoooooo 7y agoI understand what you mean. Yet when you are told something you have to be able to think "yes, this fits my experience, I can interpret it the way you say", otherwise you will not accept it as true. You seem well versed in the matter, can you recommend sources to learn more about all this ?