Thanks for sharing that post, Clearvision.
It is a very insightful view of a fragile "Guru" in need of adoration.
I saw in response to that post, a person who has studied Advaita Vedanta for 16 years took issue with the comment "Concerns of the audience are undermined in classic Advaita Vedanta style by pointing the questioner to their own awareness."
This person states that turning the question back onto the questioner and asking such things as "Who is the one who asks the question?" is actually not classic Advaita Vedanta but a method of 'self-inquiry' that apparently was used by Ramana.
This method is now misused by unskilled teachers who do not like to answer questions about their incomplete, watered-down teachings.
In traditional Advaita Vedanta, all questions are encouraged and all doubts are looked into. A student is never told to reject their own mind or dismiss critical thinking. Mooji and many other 'neo-advaita' teachers just make up their own thing as they go along, and then they use it to manipulate people.
It is a very insightful view of a fragile "Guru" in need of adoration.
I saw in response to that post, a person who has studied Advaita Vedanta for 16 years took issue with the comment "Concerns of the audience are undermined in classic Advaita Vedanta style by pointing the questioner to their own awareness."
This person states that turning the question back onto the questioner and asking such things as "Who is the one who asks the question?" is actually not classic Advaita Vedanta but a method of 'self-inquiry' that apparently was used by Ramana.
This method is now misused by unskilled teachers who do not like to answer questions about their incomplete, watered-down teachings.
In traditional Advaita Vedanta, all questions are encouraged and all doubts are looked into. A student is never told to reject their own mind or dismiss critical thinking. Mooji and many other 'neo-advaita' teachers just make up their own thing as they go along, and then they use it to manipulate people.