Sesh!
You are struck with "merging of the soul ."...
Then you got to define - soul, then merging with what? so you got to define the "what" - you got to define the process "merging"
You will not listen... anyway.........just my aathangam.
What I don't understand is "ALL THE OBJECTIONS ARE ANSWERED " by Bhagavat Padal and as with any study , in philosophy too a structured approach is avaiable - Why people want to speculate................don't want to apply themselves in well-trodden path.. This is a puzzle.
Advaita is not refuted in the bhasyams of Vishistadvaita or Dvaita. The objections are for Lokayutas,Madhayamikas etc...
Regards
Malgova, am not stuck anywhere... think you got the wrong end...
I have never said that advaitam is incorrect...
What am trying to say here is that there cannot be a "Nirguna Brahman"... for that line of thinking negates the very premise itself...
My theory:
Fact, logic etc are relative... These are for people who are bound by the relativity of their existence. Also, the concept of timelessness has no meaning... for time has a meaning only when there is a beginning and an end...
So, the Brahman which we are talking about did not evolve - it has been and will always be. For if we say that Brahman was born, and there was a period devoid of Brahman, then he is but an elevated individual... not the ultimate.
Awareness is the only thing which has no beginning or ending - it can exist in different ways in different beings - which is the very purpose of creation.
But what is awareness? It is not like a "Hiranyagarbha" state where every thing is in a sort of suspended trance, rather it is like the new-born baby which reacts to its surroundings... but is unable to express itself. so to express and explore it has to evolve... which is the reason for creation.
Awareness is the prerequisite to creation, awareness + creation = perception, with perception comes discrimination, curiosity and other gunas...
Different beings were created; with each age and period evloving new species... this is just the continuous pattern of awareness itself; there is no reason, no purpose, just to explore, feel and exist.
But awareness is a state, and in this, it is a quality and that is why a Saguna Brahman...
I am somewhat comfortable with Ramanujacharya's theory of Saguna Brahman, but still have doubts as regards the purpose (of attaining that state)... I think we have evolved for Brahman (us) to experience different forms of perception... for that is the only existing truth... Not to go back to that original state...