Discovering the Source Ken: The Thompson excerpt demonstrates something: it is possible to express the relative point of view; it is possible to express the Absolute point of view (to the extent that this can remain a possibility); to those who do not comprehend the difference (or even that there is a difference), this can create immense confusion! For this reason (more than any other, I surmise) Maharshi, Ramesh, Krishnamurti and other prominent teachers are persistently misunderstood. If you speak strictly from the Absolute viewpoint (which some have done), how do you generate a dialogue with someone who (as yet) conceives only the relative viewpoint? However, when you initiate the dialogue by speaking from (or of) the relative (as Krishnamurti invariably did), how are they to recognize when you’ve shifted to the nonrelative viewpoint? A person to whom both contexts are thoroughly clear will recognize such shifts from one perspective to another. But these are not the ones who sit at the gurus’ feet. Ramesh is probably the most misunderstood teacher of Advaita today. Anyone reading his writings from the nondual perspective can follow clearly what he’s expressing. If you stop a man on the street (or woman, either) and ask: “How would you define ‘the Absolute’?”, he’ll stare at you blankly. But ask, “How would you define ‘God’?”… So, Ramesh (and others) use, for example, the word God as a synonym for what they perceive as the Absolute. No teacher of Advaita would assert that you are apart from the Absolute; but “everyone knows” that “you are not
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