Aphorisms of Narada: An Inquiry Into Love

—tionships The text begins mid-word, continuing from the previous page's discussion on the nature of spiritual connections. between God and man. They do not deny, but only amplify each other when properly viewed, until in the non-duality original: adwaita: The philosophical realization that the individual soul and the Divine are not two separate entities, but are essentially one. we get the deepest expression possible to the mind of man. Buddhism, which must also be recognised as an Indian system, although it denied the authority of the Vedas The most ancient and sacred scriptures of India, which serve as the foundation for various spiritual traditions. of which the Upaniṣads A series of philosophical texts within the Vedas that focus on the internal nature of the soul and the ultimate reality. are a portion, is nevertheless full of Upaniṣad teaching, and the difference between the Nirvâna original: Nirvâna — In Buddhism, the state of liberation where the "fires" of craving and suffering are extinguished. of Buddhism and the ‘not this, not this’ original: Neti Neti — A method of spiritual inquiry that attempts to describe the Divine by stripping away everything that is finite and changeable. of Vedânta The philosophical system based on the "end" or culmination of the Vedas, focusing on the ultimate knowledge of reality. would be difficult indeed to distinguish. Both in passing beyond time, space and causation original: Kâla-deśa-nimitta accept the inevitable conclusion that all afterwards must be expressed by negations, since the conditions which make thought possible have been transcended.

A religion cannot remain for long more than a comfortable (or uncomfortable) theory after the possibilities of realisation The process of moving beyond mere intellectual belief to a direct, personal experience of spiritual truth. have been removed from it, or by some kind of obstruction have been made so diffi—