MEISTER ECKHART AND VEDANTA

Meister Eckhart was a 13th century German mystic whose Christian teachings sound at times like Vedanta teachings.  Among his quotes that may be seen this way:

"We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born."  The Brahman forever creates itself through us, his creation, i.e. we create Brahman as he creates us.

"Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter."  Letting go of the egoic self is a prerequisite to spiritual awakening.  Individuality is something to be laid aside; it is nothing, Eckhart taught.

"He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere."  This is the pantheism of Advaita Vedanta.  God is everything.  Brahman is the universal and eternal Unity transcending all diversity.

"My eye and God's eye are one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love."  The eye of the Atman and the eye of the Brahman are the same eye.

"The soul first trains itself by systematic unknowing until at last it confronts the only reality, the only knowledge, God manifest in itself."  This is the Atman purging itself of all that it has come to know here, so to reach the Brahman in itself, the Brahman that is itself.