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ONTO-THEOLOGY
Reflections on Sri Sankaracharya ONTO-THEOLOGY 10/30/20

In the light of Marion

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Onto theology
• Idolatry
• GOD – One who surprises
• Onto theology – Product of reason
• Our own thinking
• No surprises
• Know every thing
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Onto theology
• Descartes – My thinking
• Pascal – Reason of Heart
• Heidegger – The Meaning giver, Judge (Dasein)
• Kant – Scarecrow god
• Nietzsche – Make thyself
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Marion
• Distance
▫ No coincidence between God and Concept of God
▫ Absolute distance
▫ Man____........____God
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▫ Distance promote proximity

▫ Absolute distance absolute proximity
▫ Therefore infinite distance greater proximity
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• God above all reasons

• Beyond all human – beings
• Philosophy - intellectual, reasoning
• Limits God, the infinity
Scientific
• Being
Nothingness
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Nothingness
• Not without any “thing”
• But not a thing
• Incomprehensible
• We are, in around, within, by ----- things
• Hence – a stage of Nothingness
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Sankara
• God – Nirguna
• Not with out any Guna
• Without Guna – God?
• Guna – Uncomprehensible for man
• Man – in, by, around, of, Gunas
• Nirguna – Incomprehensible Guna
• The real, unchanging, never ending Guna
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• Seeing God as being – ignorance

• Reason sees God as being
• Man and God different
• Only one reality
• Reality
▫ Absolute
▫ Empirical
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• Brahman beyond being (empirical)

• And above all our articulations, thinking….
• Above all qualifications
• All thinking, reasoning
• Words make it wrong
• Hence

• Nirguna
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NIRGUNA
• Not without Guna
• But with Gunas that transcend human mind
• Above human reason, intelligence
• Beyond the reach of Human mind and speech
• When all Gunas of the world disappears
• Appears the Nirguna
• Death all Gunas disappears
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• Sankara –
• In life can liberate ourselves from gunas
• JeevanMuktha – Liberated
• One with the Nirguna
• Yet remains for world
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Isvara
• Practical Utility – Saguna, Isvara
• For Upasan and bhakti
• Once the nirguna is attained – Isvara disappears
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• God is Nirguna – With Gunas that are beyond

• That are eternal, all knowing, omnipotent

• God is same yesterday, today and tomorrow

• We mortals – Hence God is Nirguna

• Devotion – Saguna
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• Buddha =- Silence

• Buddhism – Nirvana – Nothingness emptyness

Sunyatha
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Raimon Panikkar
• Leads back to a new silence

• Silence is the place where time and eternity

embraces

• The divine mystery is ineffable and

no discourse Describes it
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•THANK YOU