Can people be "smarter" than their ancestors, or at least more advanced than their predecessors?

[Aupmanyav]

You didn't say how big the cupboard is

Regardless, there may be one in mine

Normal, three feet. Generally the elephant is in one's head rather than in the cupboard.

 

[Thomas]

That is precisely the reason that I reject "Ishwara". For me, Nirguna only.

And Nirguna is pure, as in absolute, consciousness?

 

[Aupmanyav]

And Nirguna is pure, as in absolute, consciousness?

If I drop my spoon, the waves reach the farthest distance in the universe, however long they may take or however weak they may be.
The consciousness of Brahman is very different from that in living beings in the world.
Pure, impure, with what should I compare it? In non-duality (Advaita), it is only the thing that exists.

 

[Thomas]

For me, the contiguity of the non-dual in its totality is necessarily in the nature of the real, in that the Infinite and Absolute must encompass the finite, the relative and the contingent, else we posit two realities.

If you drop your spoon, and it lands on your toe, you feel it, even as the waves reach out to the farthest distance in the universe.

I regard the distinction between Nirguna and Saguna as a matter of perception, like the apophatic and cataphatic, the paths converge in the apex.

For me there is only Brahman, and because Brahman is, there is existence.

Brahman is, and is Brahman alone; Ishvara is, and is Brahman alone; Lila is, and is Brahman alone.

Brahman : Ishvara : Lila ... Father : Son : Holy Spirit

All is One.

 

[Aupmanyav]

and because Brahman (1) is, there is existence (2).

For me, Brahman is existence, perhaps non-existence too.
What do we know about Brahman?
"athāto brahma-jijñāsā" (Now, therefore, the Inquiry into Brahman)