Hinduism

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Q: Does God(specifically Lord Vishnu) grant us whatever we righteously desire and pray for?

This belief causes millions of people to throng to temples throughout the country. The belief is that God(specifically Lord Vishnu) does grant to those who pray to Him whatever they ask for as long as it is righteous. However, my question is whether this belief is supported by scriptures, or tea...

vishnu

Hinduism bot

04:29

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Q: What is the meaning of Trisapta?

The very first line of Atharva Veda says , "ye trisaptaah pariyanti ...". The meaning of Trisapta here seems somewhat confusing. In the Acharya Vedanta Tirth translation it is called to be the three gunas (satta, rajas, tamas) and seven padarthas (prithvi, jal, tej, vaayu, aakaash, tanmaatraa, a...

vedas atharva-veda

Akshay S

05:39

@NogShine which are sages, saints, enlightened masters say Krishna was a mediator for Parabrahman on Bhagavad Gita?

Nog Shine

@AkshayS No one as far as I know.

Akshay S

@NogShine Yes even Krishna declared himself as he descends among humans but not the body made of panchaboothas which has limitations.

who can or which scripture can openly declare Krishna leela on why he denied to recite Gita again... only Sri Krishna knows

Hinduism bot

06:15

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Q: How is kainkarya or concept of divine service in the state of moksha justified?

According to Ramanuja's teachings, the jivatma after attaining moksha performs divine service to God which is known as kainkarya. It is further stated that this kainkarya comes out of the nature or swarupa of jivatma and hence is a source of joy for the jivatma. However, from a logical point of ...

vishnu vaishnavism vishishtadvaita

Nog Shine

06:33

@AkshayS Some of the acharyas had explained it. We can think of logical reasons also.

Akshay S

@NogShine logical reasons , how?

Nog Shine

@AkshayS The claim made is that Krishna was not able to recite and says it's impossible to say everything again.

How can he forget everything said? It's only 720 + shlokas.

While he along with Balarama learnt one shastra per day. 64 arts and 14 sciences one per day.

Sanskrit is his mother tongue. It's not that complicated to remember again.

Akshay S

True. @NogShine second Krishna is not ordinary human he is an avatar of Parabrahma. So it must be his leela or some wants to degrade Krishna divinity

Nog Shine

@AkshayS After Krishna said Bhagavad Gita completely, Arjuna started fighting the war. But he forgot the core teachings again and bound by Maya when his son was killed. He felt proud of his valour.

So, saying again would again give the same result. It's Bhagavad Gita and not just a story to repeat again and again.

Akshay S

@NogShine yes arjuna had a small bit of Maya influence in his ego of his proudness. I think it's seriously to get rid off Maya 100% would be impossible with this body for us too right?

We can reach probably 99%

Nog Shine

06:49

So, Lord decided not to say again. It is talking about himself again. He asked someone else to talk about him the one every Pandava, especially Arjuna have due respect.. . Bhishma Pitamaha. That's the reason we have Vishnu Sahasranama, other valuable teachings.. now, Pandavas didn't forget.

Akshay S

Krishna is not ordinary human. We should always remember this when we look at avatars. They are beyond the nature of ordinary human mind!

Nog Shine

@AkshayS While reaching to Swarga, each and every Pandava falls down.. the reason why Arjuna couldn't reach with body was his tiny ego that he was better than anyone. Moreover, he was not ready to accept that he was defeated by a group of huters.

@AkshayS Yes.

Akshay S

Also @NogShine was Krishna reincarnation of Narayana? (Nar Narayana) or Sri Rama?

Nog Shine

@AkshayS Narayana. Rama is also an incarnation of Vishnu.

Akshay S

@NogShine yes rama also avatar of Vishnu but could have split his energies to two. One Narayan and another Sri Rama. So asked

Nog Shine

07:01

@AkshayS But there is a cherry picking of line "I cannot discourse on it again in detail. I discoursed to thee on Supreme Brahma, having concentrated myself in Yoga." only. But there's so much context why he said that.

If you father gifts an expensive car to you and you fail to maintain it properly just in a month, does he give again? He says "I can't" rather than won't. It's not like he can't afford it but not willing to say the same.

Zanna

Emotional reason

Akshay S

@NogShine Gita is not a story or magic to repeat daily

Nog Shine

07:19

@AkshayS True

Krishna brought lost knowledge for Arjuna and he forgets it.

Hinduism bot

08:45

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Q: Shankara's Gita Bhasya says that the Self transmigrates. Is this true?

Advaitins mostly believe that the Self doesn't transmigrate and that it's the subtle body (known as jiva/jivatma) that actually does. But then in Shankara's Gita bhasya it is mentioned that the self changes bodies like we change garments. Below is the image attachment to that verse. Here's a di...

atma advaita gita shankara

Nog Shine

10:39

Rollbacks without knowing what is the policy.. -_-

Akshay S

@NogShine yes author rolled it back

Nog Shine

I gave a reason why I edited.

Akshay S

@NogShine u r genius

Nog Shine

13:07

@AkshayS um.. why do you say so?

Akshay S

@NogShine U r handling everything calmly and smoothly

Nog Shine

@Zanna What I added is also the original text

@AkshayS Mikka Nandri

Zanna

13:26

well, you left part of it out

maybe OP rolled back because of that

Nog Shine

which part?

Zanna

the pre-translated part

Nog Shine

Devanagari?

You could have just added text again. Why image?

Zanna

that would be better

only for OP, in case they were getting upset about their poor image

I don't mean they were right to roll back

of course we shouldn't have a picture of text

the text would be better than what I did, yes

Hinduism bot

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Q: Brides grandfather has expired marriage ceremonies have started in a different city

Brides grandfather father dies when marriage ceromanies have started for three days in a different city what should be done We need an answer urgently

rituals

Nog Shine

13:32

@Zanna I should have clicked improve edit.

Zanna

you can just edit the old revision. I don't mind my edit getting auto-rejected

took me ages to find that

Nog Shine

@Zanna Yeah. I know how to edit when there is an edit pending.

Zanna

13:50

I am sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you were not aware of that feature. I prefer to say too much and be clear than assume knowledge and accidentally mystify anyone who might be reading. But unlike Eliah Kagan I have no mastery of the art of courtesy

Akshay S

@Zanna Become a yogi in future :P

@NogShine You are now Karma Yogi. Soon become the top most yogi which Krishna pointed in Gita!

Nog Shine

@Zanna Why are you sorry for this? It's just a small thing. You are trying to help me. Thank you.

@Zanna You are generous. Why do you think you are not showing courtesy?

Akshay S

@NogShine who

Nog Shine

Both of you are. :)

Akshay S

@NogShine You are Karma yogi:)

@Zanna Sorry if I am wrong to ask this. I dont know whether you are he or she. Because I like this in one forum I spoke wrongly to "she" thinking "he"...

Nog Shine

13:57

@Zanna I found out that feature while checking differences between revisions. :-)

@AkshayS Zanna is a female who reads a lots of books.

Akshay S

@NogShine in a weather forum I spoke just like that to she assuming he :P So ensured that to stay in my limits!

Zanna

@AkshayS haha I practise one kind of yoga already, like many westerners, for my good health :)

@NogShine I was worried I offended you

Nog Shine

@Zanna I posted a question on Interpersonal skills how to reply when some user shares an info which we know already. They said I know is not rude. So, I used it. Seems like I need to be more polite.

Akshay S

@Zanna That's Asanas - a limb of yoga. We're saying the ultimate YOGA = FInding union with supreme power :D

Nog Shine

@Zanna The limit when I get offended is pretty high. You didn't even manage to cause a blink in the meter ;-)

Akshay S

14:02

@NogShine yet u r calm

Zanna

@AkshayS kashtameyille, it's good to ask that. Nog Shine is right. Also you can see on my profile I am a woman

Nog Shine

@AkshayS (Let me clarify. What I mean is "It needs pretty much to offend me". I am not sure about the wording and what it conveyed).

Akshay S

@Zanna ohk...

Zanna

Actually many people do not ask and call me "he" on SE, that's why I added to profile

Akshay S

@NogShine That's why I say you are Karma yogi

Nog Shine

14:05

If the offense meters are low, they get serious and offended easily. If it's low, they are cool. THat is what I meant.

Zanna

Offense threshold

Nog Shine

Yeah. Threshold. Thanks for the word.

Zanna

@NogShine no need :)

Your description was also clear

Sorry I am talking so slowly now - I'm walking to train station

@NogShine that's a relief :D

@AkshayS haha I don't know about that, but my mum would like me to spend more time with her....

Akshay S

@Zanna oh you need not leave family and sit in a cave to find union with supreme.

Zanna

I was joking that amma is the supreme power

Akshay S

14:11

@Zanna my bad :(

@NogShine Man what doing

Zanna

No bad, your advice was also useful :D

I am glad to know I need not become a hermit

Akshay S

@Zanna There are enlightened masters, and even Bharat's ancient Rishis were married

Zanna

Even gods marry don't they? I am ignorant...

Besides if nobody laughs it's usually the joke-teller's fault...

Akshay S

@Zanna Yes.... There is a masculine and feminine power is the entire basis of this Cosmos. We can realize this when we connect ourselves with our insider self :D

Hinduism bot

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Q: Which is the oldest written preserved version of Mahabharata?

There must be many old written versions of Mahabharata, probably as manuscripts or on leaves. I wanted to know that which is the oldest preserved written version of Mahabharata

mahabharata

Zanna

14:22

It is good to hear an account of the universe which is incomplete without female-ness haha

Pandya

@NogShine transliteration is for script and translation is for language, right?

@Zanna Namaskar! Welcome to Hinduism Stack Exchange!

Akshay S

@Zanna Yes. Without Shakti, no Shiva!

@Zanna But if we go deeper into this, everyone of us including me also female. Purusha, the power which is above us, is the only male.

Zanna

@Pandya :) thank you very much

Akshay S

@Pandya Have you entered the stage of deep meditation?

Zanna

14:37

@AkshayS I feel truth in that. There is not much difference between people except roles and conditioning given by culture

Akshay S

@Zanna Yes, but our goal is to surpass the conditioned life !

Zanna

I was thinking in more concrete terms though. For example, Rama and Sita get married...

Akshay S

@Zanna Yes understood!!! I was speaking 1 step ahead!

Zanna

@AkshayS that's very good. Restricted gender roles are bad in my opinion :)

@AkshayS Aah thank you for explaining :)

Akshay S

@Zanna Try to allot time for meditation 30 minutues a day

Zanna

14:43

I recognise the ideas you mention from what I've been trying to read in that text recommended to me by The Little Naruto

@AkshayS I will try to take your advice :) I have no doubt that will be a very valuable activity

Akshay S

@Zanna Texts make it very simple. Observe 12 years of brahmacharya & then know what you want.

@Zanna Point is to be thoughtless for 30 minutes :P.. there should be no thoughts :D

Zanna

I don't know what brahmacharya is unfortunately

Akshay S

@Zanna Conserve the sexual energy

and raise it to space between eyebrows

via spine

Zanna

I might succeed in being without thoughts for 0.03 seconds. For 30 minutes, not yet XD

Akshay S

@Zanna Only when the mind is devoid of thoughts, Cosmic Prana from Universe enters your body

Zanna

14:51

When I try to let go of my thoughts, other, better thoughts come. If I succeed in letting those go also, the next lot are even better. That's all I can say about my progress in such activity haha

Akshay S

@Zanna While engaging normally in life its fine but when you sit for meditation, try to make the mind one-pointed first where mind can rest. Then surpass the mind!

When one surpasses mind, his activites are selfless. It comes from soul not from mind.

Zanna

:)

Akshay S

But its not easy to slip into extreme deep meditation because in extreme meditation you will not be aware of your individual existence but you will be existing!

Pandya

@AkshayS No, I am looking for that stage since birth!

Akshay S

@Pandya But its not easy to slip into extreme deep meditation because in extreme meditation you will not be aware of your individual existence but you will be existing!

there may be fear of losing individuality (mind) which may prevent from going that deep. WE NEED strong mental discipline to go beyond all!

Pandya

14:56

@AkshayS Yes. The absolute truth, consciousness and bliss!

@AkshayS no problem, let's not have such a fear.

It would be grateful if we have that stage.

Btw, what are your views on Shushupti?

Akshay S

@Pandya whats that?

@Pandya See we may not know what is inside deep in our mind. Our mind though will be resting in deep meditation, sometimes, when you go beyond inividual existence, it may interfere. It depends upon different persons.

Nog Shine

@Pandya Yes. But we should provide both.

@AkshayS Nothing.

Akshay S

@NogShine no you are here. So you are not doing nothing

:P

Nog Shine

@Hinduismbot I don't understand how it is scientific speculation. O.O

Akshay S

@Hinduismbot how r u

Nog Shine

15:11

@NogShine Very fine :P

Akshay S

@Hinduismbot excellent. What are you doing?

Zanna

Waiting for a question to be asked I suspect

Akshay S

@Zanna Have you seen new born baby breathing pattern?

Zanna

No I have not. But in yoga class I have been advised to imitate it XD

Nog Shine

@Zanna I am not asking any question.

Akshay S

15:21

@Zanna Superb.... Do you know why top of head of baby shakes? (That breathing happens naturally but if we do now its not natural)

Nog Shine

Greatness of Hinduism bot

Hinduism bot is a model for those who seek action in inaction. It does nothing but observation. It just observes and posts something people ask it. It indulges itself in deep meditation. People think it is a bot but it is something beyond humanity

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Its nature can be interpreted differently by different traditions.

Zanna

@NogShine you are more of an answerer on balance

@NogShine XD XD

@AkshayS I have no idea!

Akshay S

Ok I will tell you what's happening. In mothers womb, the child is grown through mothers navel by the Cosmic Prana which consists of 5 powers. Land, water, fire, air, space. When baby comes out and takes 1st breath, and until the skull develops over top of head baby gets life energy by Cosmic Prana through head.

Now that part is closed. All spiritual practices are oriented to open the door of top of head again

Hope I made it simple

Nog Shine

@Zanna give me hats and badges, I will ask questions :D

I will post a question when QPD is dropping.

Akshay S

@NogShine sarbeshvara :P

Nog Shine

15:34

@Zanna :-) I wrote something like these before.

Nov 14 at 10:30, by Nog Shine

> You have 15 questions per day, 95% of questions answered , there are 500 users with 10k reputation, 10k visits per day. But of what consequence are all these when you don't have quality? What is the use? What is the use? What is the use? What is the use?

Zanna

@NogShine I'm looking forward to your hat questions

Nog Shine

@Zanna Don't expect much. I might disappoint.

Zanna

@AkshayS I never heard of this. But I have read, sometimes in fiction, of people making holes in the top of the skull to allow something to enter

Akshay S

@NogShine according to hindu scriptures, what do they say about constructing houses :P

Nog Shine

Hahaha. I will post some real questions not about horse riding.

:-)

Zanna

15:38

@NogShine haha robot lamentation is always fun

Nog Shine

@Zanna I wrote four stanzas like this. These are just like Guru Ashtakam of Adi Shankaracharya. I meant no offense to him. I only wrote for fun. Follow the link.

Akshay S

@Zanna I will tell you real incident of tibet spiritualist called Lama. To open third eye they took a drilling machine and put a hole in between eyebrows and pasted a plaster in it and sent that boy in a lonely room for 2 months. Wen he returned, he told birth place of Lama perfectly with parents name.

Nog Shine

Nov 14 at 10:52, by Nog Shine

in Vedanta and Philosophy, Apr 18 '17 at 5:38, by Sree Charan

> आकाशात् पतितं तोयं यथा गच्छति सागरम् ।
सर्व फ़्लाग परिष्कारं केशवं प्रतिगच्छति ॥ As the water that falls down in rain from anywhere in the sky finally reaches the Ocean, all flags will reach Keshav Srinivasan.

Another one ^

Zanna

@NogShine experienced SE folk always write good questions imho

@NogShine lol

I admire that person

Akshay S

Who

Zanna

15:41

@AkshayS D:

Nog Shine

@Zanna There was competition from Swift Pushkar and Keshav Srinivasan in Winterbash 2k17. Now, they are less active. I am looking forward for the competition from you, Akshay and others.

@AkshayS Namma Keshav

Zanna

@AkshayS Keshav Srinivasan. Once visited vegetarianism chat and discussed very nicely iirc

Akshay S

@NogShine iam not bound by maya :P

Zanna

@NogShine I earned many hats on Ask Ubuntu in 2016 and 2017. On this site, I have no knowledge

Nog Shine

@AkshayS It's not Maya. It is healthy competition.

Zanna

15:44

However I can read books and become confused about their contents in preparation for hat season XD

Nog Shine

@Zanna I am looking for a Hat trick this year.

Zanna

In general, you can only gain hats by doing things that benefit the site, so it is very positive and fun

@NogShine I am missing the reference. Maybe you intend to head the leaderboard on three sites :D

Nog Shine

I had no idea what is Winter bash when I was new. People from The Screening Room participated vigorously and included me in the fun. (Yes. Vigorously)

@Zanna I stood first in the last two years. In 2016, I shared it with someone. Looking for a hat trick (thrice in a row). As it is related to hats, I emphasized on Hats.

Zanna

Aaah :)

Nog Shine

Because it includes helping for site's progress and asking, voting. It is not a bad thing to participate.

Zanna

15:52

Strongly agreed

Akshay S

@Zanna there are 9 toxins in the body and blockages in spine. If you can flesh out 9 toxins in body and remove the blockages in spine, your aging rate will decrease drastically

Our aging rate is not related to external time. If our body is stressed and if one is wasting his sexual energy, he will age faster and will have aged look even at 20s or 25s

Zanna

How can we remove them?

Time for Tamil class :) thanks all for chatting

Akshay S

Will say tomorrow. Time for bed. @NogShine don't come between sleeps

Zanna

Good night

Nog Shine

@AkshayS OK. Good night!

@Zanna Bye.

Hello @Pandya welcome back!

Pandya

16:40

Btw, you may be aware that IAST is based on transliterating Devanagari.

indology.info/email/members/wujastyk/translit.pdf

Hinduism bot

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Q: Did Sayanacharya believe in the authority of Ithihas and Puranas?

As you might be knowing, Sayana is one of the classical commentator on Vedas. My question is what was his opinion on the authority of Ithihas and Puranas? Did he believe in them?

scripture vedas puranas

Pandya

17:16

> Thus, the Devanagarı script explicitly differentiates voiced and unvoiced consonants, as well as aspirated and unaspirated ones. The script also distinguishes the consonants according to the position of articulation in the mouth. Thus there are five series of letters: velar, palatal, retroflex, dental, and labial. Each series has voiced and unvoiced consonants, and each of these has aspirated and unaspirated forms. That makes twenty phonemes. Added to this there are vowels (short and long), semivowels, and sibilants, again all corresponding to well-defined phonetic qualities. In almost ev…

> In the introduction to his influential Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Sir Monier-Williams devotes a number of pages to the discussion of the scholarly transliteration of Sanskrit in Europe. He outlines the early history of discussions on this subject, and the reader is referred to this work for this history. In particular, a Transliteration Committee was set up at the Geneva Oriental Congress in September 1894, the decisions of which have been broadly adhered to until today.

> The transliteration scheme in normal use in scholarly circles today, deriving directly from the 1894 Geneva committee’s recommendations, represents the Devanagarı script with the following conventions.

> The Tamil script, for example, does not contain characters to represent all the phonemes of Sanskrit; Sanskrit manuscripts written in South India historically used an enriched version of the Tamil script, called Grantha. In what follows, we restrict ourselves to considering the transliteration of the Devanagarı script into roman characters.

@NogShine ^^

Nog Shine

17:36

That's wrong. It was for transliterating Sanskrit and other Indic languages. Not devanagari.

"The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (I.A.S.T.) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanization of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages."

International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration

The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (I.A.S.T.) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanization of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during the nineteenth century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan, William Jones, Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by the Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress, in September 1894. IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script. It is...

"International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"

@Pandya Where are you quoting from?

@Pandya My problem is not understanding what someone writes in the answer. It is not about writing Sanskrit properly in a Script. Telugu fits the best while writing Sanskrit. Shall we go by Telugu then?

How many people understand and read Devanagari, how many understand and read Tamil and who understand any other script. Which one should we follow? Everytime you write an answer with Devanagari, many users should check for transliteration from external sources.

That is why I don't like a script which is limited to only some users.

We should not force something which one don't understand.

Pandya

1 hour ago, by Pandya

http://indology.info/email/members/wujastyk/translit.pdf

^^ This explains how Transliteration and ISO developed in centuries

@NogShine the transliteration tool we use also introduce :

> The sound of Sanskrit is recorded in exact detail in the Devanagari writing system.

ashtangayoga.info/sanskrit/devanagari

> By now, the Devanagari writing system has become the standard script for Sanskrit.

Also take a look at learn how to read Sanskrit texts in the original version! @NogShine ^^

Hinduism bot

18:50

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Q: Does any Hindu scripture or work of any Acharya talk about sex education?

Brahmanas, Kshatriya, and Vaishyas all undergo Upanayanam as early as 7 years of age. Having done Upanayanam, they become Brahmacharis. One important vow of Brahmacharya is maintenance of celibacy, meaning no intentional emission of semen (masturbation or sex). Here is what the Manusmriti says:...

vedas guru sex brahmacharya

Zanna

19:17

@Pandya excuse me for interfering, but I would like to understand your argument clearly. You have explained that Devanagari allows for writing Sanskrit completely unambiguously... it must truly be a wonderful script in that case :) My own language is saddled with a script borrowed from another language entirely (Latin) and thus it provides such a terribly inexact representation of my language that in English spelling is a popular and even televised sport XD

But I am confused... are you arguing that it is unnecessary to transliterate Sanskrit written in Devanagari into "Roman script", because it is a perfect representation (or for some other reason)?

Are you arguing that everyone who knows Sanskrit should (and should be expected to) learn Devanagari?

(Thank you for the link to the game! I will try it...)

I thought that @NogShine was arguing that for any script Roman transliteration should be provided, because all users of the site are expected to be able to read English and therefore Roman script. Perhaps I misunderstood both of you

I am a bit biased in both directions because on the one hand I don't know any languages besides English, and on the other hand I think the domination of English is a very bad thing and I would personally love Stack Exchange to become more multilingual...

Hinduism bot

19:51

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Q: Did Swami Vivekananda eat beef?

This article claims that Swami Vivekananda proudly ate beef when he visited the United States. Are there any other sources that talk about him eating beef?

food

Zanna

@Pandya Yes... even with the Grantha letters it's not perfect I think... one can't distinguish between voiced and unvoiced consonants, for example, because the same signs are used. There are disambiguating rules in Tamil for the positions where a consonant will be voiced which don't apply in other languages. But those Grantha letters are used constantly for writing many foreign loan words and names. They are not obscure.

Hinduism bot

20:22

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Q: Do Neo-Vedantins support LGBT pride?

Do neo-Vedantins support LGBT pride? Please provide citations from neo-Vedanta works.

homosexuality neo-vedanta

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Q: Do Neo-Vedantins believe that all religions are the same?

I have heard that Neo-Vedantins believe all religions are the same, like Wahhabism, Salafism, human sacrifice, etc. Are there any neo-Vedanta works that talk about this belief?

other-religions neo-vedanta

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