/lit/ - Literature

>>20742993
What happens is you read Guenon's sources, and the sources of guenonposter, and realize they didn't know what they were talking about and retroactively refute themselves all the time.

advaita is just mahayana buddhism with a thin coat of paint

bros why did shankara steal so many ideas and themes from mahayana buddhism?

>>19077504
>I'm still pretty confused on how this differs much from Buddhism.
It doesn't

>>18969045
careful about what??

>>18953203
the bottom right of this pic sums it up well

shankara was a buddhist with vedanta covering, but he paved the way for later thinkers like ramanuja whose ideas are closer to the real original contents of the vedanta

>>18953914
sharma is outdated and dogmatic, better to read something more well rounded

i recommend hirst, Samkara's Advaita Vedanta: A Way of Teaching. it's highly recommended by shankara's main fans on /lit/ and a good well rounded coverage.

>>18940239
guenonfag himself confirmed that shankara is a crypto buddhist

>>18435736
>NNooo I'm not a crypto buddhist!! NOooO Ahblobloobloo.

>>18402103
>Advaita is different from Buddhism in practically every way
Please be aware that guenonfag, the advaita expert on /lit/ and number one Adi Shankara superfan, has finally accepted the consensus of scholarship and Hindus that Shankara was ripping off mahayana buddhism.

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>>18080136
It's interesting advaitins use the Buddhist snake metaphor so heavily, see pic related.

A misconception is still a conception. Whatever the psychic substance ultimately is, there is no metaphysically distinct state of "illusion" that requires definition in terms of a distinct substance. Illusions are relative to some context, and they are correct relative to the insufficient or misguiding information they are based on. A sinuous gestalt probabilistically or heuristically identified as a snake, for safety's sake for example, and then re-identified as a rope is not a transition from some ill-defined virtual to an ill-defined actual "state." At least not without adequately defining this substantialization of states.

All that is actually happening is that the unitary psychical substance is shifting its intentional attitude toward the gestalt as it receives more information, or otherwise changes its stance toward it.

Extending this analogy to brahman supporting contingent beings which are in virtual states of "illusion" about objects which are ultimately also contingent aspects of brahman, there is still no explanation about why brahman would be divided in mind about itself. If all depends upon brahman, if brahman is ultimately the only subject and object in existence, simply put the only thing in existence, then brahman is analogous the unitary psychical substance changing its intentional attitude in the rope vs. snake example. But this would leave unexplained why brahman would be capable of having multiple states with regard to itself, which is the original question why maya or illusion exists at all.

>>18063759
>>18063767
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_and_Theosophy

>Goodrick-Clarke wrote that "educated Indians" were particularly impressed by the Theosophists' defense of their ancient religion and philosophy in the context of the growing self-consciousness of the people, directed against the "values and beliefs of the European colonial powers." Prof. Stuckrad noted the wave of solidarity which covered the Theosophists in India had powerful "political implications." He wrote, citing in Cranston's book, that, according to Prof. Radhakrishnan, the philosopher and President of India, the Theosophists "rendered great service" by defending the Hindu "values and ideas"; the "influence of the Theosophical Movement on general Indian society is incalculable."[57]

>Bevir wrote that in India Theosophy "became an integral part of a wider movement of neo-Hinduism", which gave Indian nationalists a "legitimating ideology, a new-found confidence, and experience of organisation." He stated Blavatsky, like Dayananda Sarasvati, Swami Vivekananda, and Sri Aurobindo, "eulogised the Hindu tradition", however simultaneously calling forth to deliverance from the vestiges of the past. The Theosophical advocacy of Hinduism contributed to an "idealisation of a golden age in Indian history." The Theosophists viewed traditional Indian society as the bearer of an "ideal religion and ethic."[26]

>>18057295
Wouldn't be surprised if it's guenonfag talking to himself again.

Anyway the crypto-buddhism accusation is real (see pic) but Guenon is far more interesting than that for other reasons.

Please be aware that guenonfag, the advaita expert on /lit/ and number one Adi Shankara superfan, has finally accepted the consensus of scholarship and Hindus that Shankara was ripping off mahayana buddhism.

>>18016155
this is true, even guenonfag agrees

>>17787351
I recommend this book instead. Guenonfag, /lit/'s Shankara expert, recommended it and speaks highly of it.

>>17664415
Guenonfag says it is