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The Three Dimensions of Equanimity
If there one reality behind the creation? Unity is genuine or duality? The visible life is an image or a reflection ? Man has threshed these questions for thousands of years The two significant theories are the Vedantic Monism and Dualism, Vedanta holds that the reality behind life is one He is conscious, omniscient and the Supreme Lord of creation Brahma Is its name Reality is single, duality is its expansion Life is a reflection Brahma is the original vision The single sun assumes a thousand shapes by being reflected in many ponds Sunrays diverge to all spots in the morning and are withdrawn in the evening The universe is the divergence of Brahma's rays They retire into their original source again Samkhya argues that there are two realities at the root of creation Prakriti and Purusha (self) Prakriti or nature is unconscious and Purusha is conscious Purushas are multiple Hence unity is not integral The conscious and the unconscious are not related as a vision and its reflection
Mahavira's view is different from the two His thesis is that no thought or idea in the world is totally different from another in that sense his theory should also resemble the other two theories discussed above Mahavira read unity in existence There is no division of the conscious and the unconscious Existence means to be To be begs for no other appended attribute Where to be alone is the reality there is perfect non-duality Mahavira propounded non-duality on
