/lit/ - Literature

>>18277938
Is that a troll ?
Anyway read Shankara, understand and do as he says.
Orthodox christianity is good but it's ok for you to reject everything that is not pure like the advaita.

>>16753086
>To aim for yourself to be destroyed, even if it is by merging into something greater, is life-denying.
In Hinduism you are not destroyed but the soul is eternal and it continues on eternally in a state of freedom.
>Are there any books that address this issue?
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines - Rene Guenon

Can you bros recommend someone books about Hinduism? I don’t know much about it and want to learn more.

Where can i find a translation of all 108 Upanishads, preferably with modern academic philological commentary?

But once you reach that conclusion there is still many thousands of pages of metaphysics to be read which fully explores this, establishes it on a sound logical basis and which fully draws out the implications

>>14212353
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN49.html
>The Blessed One said: “On one occasion recently I was staying in Ukkaṭṭha in the Subhaga forest at the root of a royal Sal tree. Now on that occasion an evil viewpoint had arisen to Baka Brahmā: ‘This is constant. This is permanent. This is eternal. This is total. This is not subject to falling away—for this does not take birth, does not age, does not die, does not fall away, does not reappear. And there is no other, higher escape.’

Buddha himself called it an evil viewpoint but then couldn't back up his own words and dodged any attempt at refuting it.

>>14165649
>if I make up a bunch of bullshit about Brahmins being muh evil wicked boogeyman who ruined muh pristine Upanishads and ruined Hinduism then I can get everyone to not like Hinduism anymore or something...
you'll have to try harder than that

>>14015945
kek

>>13794608
Chronologically yes, but point of comparison I was making that both Shankara and those two Greeks are some of the most prominent people in each tradition of thought who each made use of extensive logic discussions and dialectal examination of the truth vis a vis God, the One, death etc; this differs from the Upanishads which as anonymous scriptures dont explain their logic a like person writing a treatise would.
>>13794849
>Any core concepts that are important?
Understanding his works requires that you have a basic grasp of Hindu philosophical terminology, so if you dont have that than first read a short intro book to Hindu philosophy such as Hiriyanna's Essentials of Indian Philosophy
>Like how would a follower of his respond to the Aristotelian insistence of the prime mover?
He would conditionally agree with it but would specify that in the final analysis its not an accurate description of the absolute truth, Shankara used standard theological arguments in his attacks against the illogicality of other schools such as Samkhya and Buddhism such as when he pointed to their inability to account for the intricate order in existence under their respective cosmological schemes. Shankara and Advaita go a step further then the idea of the prime mover though, while they agree that everything leads back to one uncaused cause and God, Brahman, they disagree with the idea that it actually created or 'moved' anything to begin with and they attack this ideas as illogical for various reasons. Advaita holds the causation theory of 'Vivartavada', which means that creation is merely a category of thought and not something that exists in reality, it is apparent and not real; the unchanging blissful Godhead of pure Awareness alone is held to be the only thing that really exists; everything else being superimposed upon it as it were like a dream; this same superimposition stemming from the magician-like ability of maya (illusion/divine play) that Brahman uses to appear to create and sustain the universe while remaining in reality in His unchanging immutable existence as the One alone without anything else.

feels good man!

>>13734203
Your post just consists of a bunch of irrelevant ad-hominem attacks, meanwhile, nobody has yet posted anything else that they claim Advaita took from Buddhism except for the 1 claim that was already debunked.

This is a classic case of projection where you are trying to distract from the obvious fact that Buddha got his teachings from the early Upanishads and just put a new spin on them.

Anyone else here learning Sanskrit?

Is buddhism comparable to advaita vedanta? Are there any literary works that reconcile the two philosophies

>>12051380
>Being is. Non-being is not.
Non-being is still conditional. I'm OP and I'm saying consciousness is not conditional, it is absolute. It's not a substance or whatever you imagine the lack of a substance to be. Even non-being or non-existence is preceded by the substrate of spacetime. You can only imagine something not existing in relation to conditional phenomena.

Consciousness isn't phenomenal, it's absolute, as I've stated already. I'm not saying consciousness is a thing or it's nothing. I'm just saying it is, and that's all there is.

If anyone disagrees with me, explain where it came from.

How did Hinduism manage to defend itself from Islam for so long when it's such a nondual, muh equality of all humans and universalist? Why not just open up your assholes to the Muslim invaders since we're all just the same and basically everything we believe is real are just illusionary?

>>10388418
>implying my feelings are hurt at all

>>9666410
>Making blowjob motions with a closed mouth

Sandra Gray confirmed for pseudointellectual rhetorician.

Culture pepe series 1

>>7964022
"Pepe Monthly" issue #45 (the latest) announced it for 2016's summer collection

>>7832246
Alright OP, here's what you do

>establish MC as well meaning but hopeless loser
>insert MPDG best friend with pyromancy that rescues him from bullies
>they go on a quest to find out why MC doesn't have powers
>leads to eccentric yet wise old mentor who unofficially takes MC under his wing
>establish big bad villain who is a threat to all of civilization
>here's where you insert the typical YA filler shit, romance subplot, "Revenge of The Nerds" power fantasy, heavy handed attempt at dealing with a serious topic like divorce or death
>along the way subtly hint that MC does actually have a latent power much stronger than anything anybody else has
>ride the filler train all the way to the third act
>big bad has killed the MC's mentor and kidnapped the MPDG
>after implied training there is an immediate shift from naive loser coward to grizzled veteran unafraid of death
>final confrontation between big bad and MC
>MC initially gets the shit kicked out of him
>Mentor appears in an atemporal vision
>"you've always had a power within you"
>MC shoots light from every orofice
>suddenly tens of thousands of Syrian refugees charge in and slay the Big Bad
>MC saves MPDG who is now submissive and timid because MC has become a man
>novel ends with MC giving the MPDG to the refugees in thanks
>his power was diversity all long

>>7832274
>Le de Tour France

either there's some right-left bias in European graphic design or that is an awful logo

You're a pseud if you think you're smart because you can regurgitate what someone else has already said.

You're an intellectual if you've come to the end of tutelage and can actually learn through yourself instead of other people.

>tfw unabashedly pseud

>>7004845
>Studied philosophy to become a scientism preacher.

That's just, like, your opinion man.

>>6568007
Took a 300 level Islamic Philosophy course that was taught by a Math/Bioethics prof as a sort of passion project. Guy is the only reason abortion is available in the capacity it is today (in Canada).

There were maybe 20 people in the class and only about 7-8 that actually attended regularly so he didn't really give a shit. Class usually began with him talking shit about contemporary politics, telling us stories of his life (chasing off bears in his backyard, going off about his genuine Damascus steel dagger like a little kid at Christmas, quoting Rumi until he was nearly brought to tears) and btfo'ing this one Libertarian kid who thought he knew everything.

At the end of the semester he volunteered to debate this anti-abortion group because no one else on campus would. One of my fondest uni memories is seeing this 70 year old man absolutely destroy Biblical literalists while still managing to be respectful to the woman he was intellectually ravaging.

Truly one of the greatest men I have ever had the honour of knowing (even if he did think I was a little shit undergrad who couldn't even dream of getting on his level)