[ARridgerunner]

It doesn't matter whether one accepts or believes Advaita or Dvaita. It could be we will never reach the unknowable anyway. Personally, this is what I sometimes think. It is only our ignorance that makes us think we can know *the* God. We get a glimpse, a tease, and nothing more.

But still Knowing is everything. Jnana is so very, very difficult. (Bhakti much easier.)

Thank you for the conversation.

[little jeremiah]

Actually, the pivotal point is our desire.

One Upanishad verse states that God is the self-sufficient philosopher [knower of all knowledge, source of all knowledge, and object of all knowledge] Who has been awarding everyone their desires since time immemorial.

So if we really, really want to have union with Him, our desires will indeed be realized. But, if we kind of want to know Him a little, yet stay in the well, well, that's what we'll get. He never forces knowledge of Him or relationship with Him on us. Far from it.

Fortunately for us, there are methods by which we can sharpen and increase that desire.