It is encouraging to see people in the Society following H.H.’s guidance about creating a synthesis:
H.H. wrote:The organization which gives priority to conscious work manages to work out a synthesis; for one can, with Advaita principles, work out a system to reach synthesis with any formulations of True Knowledge.
This is by no means an easy or obvious process, as once incorporated into a religion, that knowledge tends to become distorted over time. As Dr Roles explained:
Dr Roles wrote:Take the Gospels; they are conscious in origin but by the time all the different scribes and pharisees have been over them since the manuscripts first appeared on papyrus they have been very greatly altered, have come under the Law of Accident. That is one way in which anything which is written down and published far and wide ceases to become conscious in action.
I am not, and never have been a Christian, but I am sure this article will be of interest to those members of the Society who are Christians and who want to reconcile their Christian faith with Advaita philosophy.
There is just one area in which I see things rather differently. My (very limited) understanding of Advaita philosophy is that all movement or phenomenality is caused by the action of the gunas, the law of
three forces, not from the mechanism of duality. I think there is a parallel in the Christian concept of the Trinity. I see duality as being an artificial creation of the mind – primarily the left-hemisphere – and entirely illusory. Then, as Merlyn suggests, through practice one can learn to see things differently …