Mukti? If it were so, there would never have been all this quarrel between Buddhism and the Vedantic schools. It must be a new-fangled version of Buddhism or else it was a later development in which Buddhism reduced itself back to Adwaita.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
2. Integral Yoga and Other Paths
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Undated
How is this Absolute1 different from the Absolute of the Vedanta? or this emancipation different from the Vedantic Mukti? If it were so, there would never have been all this quarrel between Buddhism and the Vedantic schools. It must be a new-fangled version of Buddhism or else it was a later development in which Buddhism reduced itself back to Adwaita.
But, is this Higher Evolution really a Buddhistic idea or only a European version of what Nirvana might be?
1 “Thus the Doctrine of Shunyata underlying the whole of the Prajna-Paramita, posits... an Absolute as inherent in phenomena, for the Absolute is the source and support of the phenomena... and in the last analysis of things by the Bodhi-illuminated mind, freed of Ignorance, duality vanishes and there remains but the One in All, the All in One.” Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines by Dr. W. Y. Evans-Wentz.
Current publication:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
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