Adi Shankara · Theology
How can Shankara teach both a personal creator-God who answers prayers and an impersonal Absolute beyond all qualities? With his doctrine of two standpoints - empirical and absolute - and two aspects of Brahman: saguna (with qualities) and nirguna (without).
You learned Shankara’s two-standpoint framework: from the empirical standpoint (vyavaharika) there is a personal God (Ishvara, saguna Brahman) who creates and governs; from the absolute standpoint (paramarthika) there is only the attributeless nirguna Brahman, with which the self is identical. Reconstruct how the two…
Leads to Immanuel Kant.
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