Back to the Truth5000 years of Advaita by Dennis Waite

Back to the Truth5000 years of Advaita Reviews

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  Von Fleckenstein

  Excellent, profound, well written, intelligible, exhaustive What else can I add? I hate the woord 'must' with regard to books etc., but I'll make an exception for this book. It IS a must for those who are interested in traditional advaita (vs. neo advaita, which is rightly criticised in this book) together with 'How to attain enlightenment' by James Swartz and 'Standing as awareness' by Greg Goode.
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  lostonrye

  I have read a few books on non duality this is very comprehensive. is a broad description of the main Tenets. of Advaidaand easier to understand an often obscure subjectDenis Waite knows how to explain some of the paradoxes of non duality
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  [email protected] - Mike Boniface DDS

  A beautiful book again, Dennis on this most difficult of subjects. Another seminal work!!!!
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  Present Man

  Buy it v good
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  Dr. C. Patel

  This is a monumental effort to expound with profound lucidity the core teachings of advaita, based on Vedanta and Upanishads of the Vedas, the Science of Self Knowledge. It dispels many of the myths propagated by Neo Vedanta and Neo Advaita satsang culture. It does away with erroneous beliefs and proceeds in a logical fashion to instill in the minds of the aspirant that what is ultimately required to remove ignorance is not to go on seeking an experience of Enlightenment but to arrive at an understanding of the nature of Reality and the nature of one's own being , i.e, knowledge of the SELF.Right at the outset Vedanta proclaims that each individual is in essence that SELF, the limitless, indestructible, whole and complete Awareness/Consciousness and that there is only that Non Dual Reality in existence. In other words we are told that we are experiencing the Non Dual SELF all the time and we are what we are seeking. However because of our identification with the Body Mind Ego, we have come to believe ourselves to be limited beings and experience separateness in duality. Effort is therefore required to slowly peel away these false beliefs and tendencies. Ramana Maharshi had the death experience during which he realised his true nature, and to ensure that his understanding would survive that experience and that his mind would permanently establish in the SELF, he spent the next 20yrs in a cave making that effort. Neo advaita culture would obviously dismiss this for making effort does not come easy due to our tamasic(inertia) tendencies.This book will reveal that Vedanta is a means of Knowledge of the SELF and not any experience of it, and like other bodies of knowledge in the objective world e.g Physics there are levels of acceptance of reality and the process of sublation. In the first stages of studying Physics, the student has to accept the initial simple models of atoms for example and then proceed to higher levels of understanding, each level sublating the former rather than delving straight into quantum physics. A similar logical and scientific process is laid out in this book and a multiple read of its content coupled with deep cogitation and analysis of our own experiences of life will eventually lead to the profound and sublime understanding that the experiencer, the object of experience and the process of experience are all one, SELF REALISATION OR ENLIGHTENMENT.