Hare Krishna All!!
All Glories to SP.
My question is related to the difference in teachings of Advaita-Vedanta and Vaishnavism.
This question has been asked and answered many times earlier also.
I have read many cases where a person who practised one religion and later accepted the Impersonal Brahaman as the supreme truth. For Example - Poonja (Known as Papaji also).Who was a notable follower of Lord Krishna and had intense vision of Lord Krishna, later accpeted Atman as the Supreme and became a disciple of Ramankrishna Paramhansa.
Another example -: Swami Ramkrishna paramhansa (He was a bhakta of Maa Kali) expreimented with all traditional religions including Christianity (where he felt presence of Jesus),
Islam where he felt close to Prophet Mohammad, Gaudiya Vaisanava (under guidance of Vaisnava Bhairavi) where he acted like Gopis and felt strong presence of Lord Krishna.
Ramakrishna visited Nadia also, the home of Chaitanya and Nityanada.
According to Ramakrishna, he had an intense vision of two young boys merging into his body.
Finally, though he claimed all religions lead to one GOD but he accepted Advaita Vadanta and Tota Puri as Guru where he said he entered nirvikalpa samadhi.
There are many personalities who claimed to have experience of Samadhi, even though they don't know about any picture of Lord.
Please show your mercy to clear my doubt!!
Hare Krishna!!
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pamho:agtsp;
to make one convince that he is god is last snear of Maya. in reality what is use of such sleep where there is no activity or ananda.in thier case samadhi means good sleep and in our case it is absorption in service of lord.
Krishna consciousness is simple but not easy means we have to chant and avoid offending vaishnavas.most of the souls are misdirected in spiritual life and then gradually they go become athiest.till we have false ego we can't relish real happiness.
as u mention "There are many personalities who claimed to have experience of Samadhi, even though they don't know about any picture of Lord." indicates they are in sleep mode but as they came out of it we also see or experience nothing in sleep.
Yes,Prabhuji making someone believe that He is God is snear of Maya. But personalities I mentioned never claimed such things and my question was not regarding such hypocrites.
My question is about the universally recognised genuine personalities who supported Advaita-Vedant or Impersonal Brahamn. Although there are many such self realized souls but my question specially is for those who worshiped God in some form ( Maa Kali, Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva etc) but still accepted Atman and Brahman as the Supreme.
Hare Krishna!!