Spiritual masters/avatars as the same Person

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Jan 02, 2017

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Von at LinkedIn:

Is it possible to find self-realization through None-Hindu traditions?

Is it possible to find self-realization through None-Hindu traditions?

It seems that many spiritual masters are actually the same entity or person in all the great teachings.

The pictures of these great masters change depending on what religion or country we look at like maybe the pictures of Buddha or Guan Shi Yin Pusa, Etc. If you look closely these masters are all the same people or entities even in the Hindu teachings.

Thanks.

MiBeloved's Response:

I do not know about them being the same entities.

I look at the evidence of the human body design which is basically the same across culture, races and geographies.

On that basis it may be assumed that the method of spiritual integration has to be similar in each case.

Similar does not mean exactly the same.

If ultimately everything was exactly the same, I feel that there would be no variety on this manifested end, and that every grain of sand on a beach would be exactly the same. As there is variety in the production, so there must be variety, though very abstract and subjective, in the origination.

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There is this idea for instance in the Vedic literature, that Vishnu is one person who is being incarnated time and again as this person and then that person. But that is contradicted if one reads the fine print and have an open mind and is willing to leave aside one's conclusions about how the texts should be interpreted.

If Vishnu was just one person, then it would be a stretch to explain how the incarnation of Vishnu by the name of Parashurama had a quarrel with Rama who is also said to be an incarnation of Vishnu. But if one needs to prove an already established idea, then one can just ignore that and explain things in the agreeable way.