Advaitha Vedanta

Originally posted by vistesd
I am probably very close to the monism of Advaita Vedanta. However, Brahman always seems to be a bit "entropic" in that model. That seems to be the main difference between Vedanta and Kashmiri Shaivism. The Kashmiri Shaivites are very non-dualistic, but use Shiva as the archetype for an active, rather than passive "Brahman."

For KS, the world of fo ...[text shortened]... votional) practices--but then, so did Ramakrishna, who was a vedantist and follower of Shankara.

It seems to me that the key difference between AV and KS is that KS believes the Brahman to be, essentially, an intelligent entity (does that remind you of "creative reason"?):

http://www.kashmirshaivism.org/introduction.html

There are also differences in the way they view 'maya'.

Originally posted by lucifershammer
It seems to me that the key difference between AV and KS is that KS believes the Brahman to be, essentially, an intelligent entity (does that remind you of "creative reason"?):

http://www.kashmirshaivism.org/introduction.html

There are also differences in the way they view 'maya'.

Maybe the Kashimiri Shaivites are closer to Aquinas in the question of whether the ground of being can also be called a being, by virtue of its essence being its existence.