Swami Turiananda was a great Vedantist. The body and the fire are at the same level of reality, he says. Shankara Chai's insight is that which is at a lower level of reality does not affect the higher level of reality.
Swami Sarvapriynanda conducts a Q&A session following the discourse on "The Essence of All Vedanta" at the Vedanta Society of New York - Apr 8, 2018 | Vedanta NY