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Guenon (pbuh) you are a bright star upon the horizon...

>>15013947
why do you think people even care about your posts?

/lit/ is going to talk about Advaita anyway, anyone who looks at your post just sees an angry and bitter shill saying "reeee stop liking what I don't like!"

>>14993744
based and red-pilled, /lit/ is awakening to it's true role as the spiritual board

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Guenon. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

>>14984103
>Tell me more about Guenon's truth and wisdom.

“René Guénon (pbuh) defies classification. . . . Were he anything less than a consummate master of lucid argument and forceful expression, his work would certainly be unknown to all but a small, private circle of admirers.”
—Gai Eaton, author of The Richest Vein

“Guénon (pbuh) established the language of sacred metaphysics with a rigor, a breadth, and an intrinsic certainty such that he compels recognition as a standard of comparison for the twentieth century.”
—Jean Borella, author of Guénonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery

“To a materialistic society enthralled with the phenomenal universe exclusively, Guénon (pbuh), taking the Vedanta as point of departure, revealed a metaphysical and cosmological teaching both macrocosmic and microcosmic about the hierarchized degrees of being or states of existence, starting with the Absolute . . . and terminating with our sphere of gross manifestation.”
—Whitall N. Perry, editor of A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

“René Guénon (pbuh) was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). . . . It was René Guénon (pbuh) who taught me to seek and love the truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else.”
—Fr. Seraphim Rose, author of The Soul After Death

“His mixture of arcane learning, metaphysics, and scathing cultural commentary is a continent in itself, untouched by the polluted tides of modernity. . . . Guénon’s (pbuh) work will not save the world—it is too late for that—but it leaves no reader unchanged.”
—Jocelyn Godwin, author of Mystery Religions in the Ancient World

“René Guénon (pbuh) is one of the few writers of our time whose work is really of importance. . . . He stands for the primacy of pure metaphysics over all other forms of knowledge, and presents himself as the exponent of a major tradition of thought, predominantly Eastern, but shared in the Middle Ages by the . . . West.”
—Walter Shewring, translator of Homer’s Odyssey

>>14725049
>our board
As >>14724846 said, /lit/ has been René Guénon (pbuh)'s personal board for decades.

>>14721544
“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon (pbuh) had to remind twentieth century man of the need for orthodoxy, which presupposes firstly a Divine Revelation and secondly a Tradition that has handed down with fidelity what Heaven has revealed. He thus restores to orthodoxy its true meaning, rectitude of opinion which compels the intelligent man not only to reject heresy but also to recognize the validity of faiths other than his own if they also are based on the same two principles, Revelation and Tradition.”
—Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

“If during the last century or so there has been even some slight revival of awareness in the Western world of what is meant by metaphysics and metaphysical tradition, the credit for it must go above all to Guénon (pbuh). At a time when the confusion into which modern Western thought had fallen was such that it threatened to obliterate the few remaining traces of genuine spiritual knowledge from the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, Guénon (pbuh), virtually single-handed, took it upon himself to reaffirm the values and principles which, he recognized, constitute the only sound basis for the living of a human life with dignity and purpose or for the formation of a civilization worthy of the name.”
—Philip Sherrard, author of Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition

“Apart from his amazing flair for expounding pure metaphysical doctrine and his critical acuteness when dealing with the errors of the modern world, Guénon (pbuh) displayed a remarkable insight into things of a cosmological order. . . . He all along stressed the need, side by side with a theoretical grasp of any given doctrine, for its concrete—one can also say its ontological—realization failing which one cannot properly speak of knowledge.”
—Marco Pallis, author of A Buddhist Spectrum

“Guénon’s (pbuh) mission was two-fold: to reveal the metaphysical roots of the ‘crisis of the modern world’ and to explain the ideas behind the authentic and esoteric teachings that still [remain] alive.”
—Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

>>14702845
>From the above analysis, it is clear that the three concepts 1. Ajnana 2) Mithyatva 3) Upadhi cannot stand the logical scrutiny.
You only posted Madhva's arguments against Bhaskara's position on those subjects and not Advaita's, the two attacks that Madhva has made so far against Advaita I already explained above were completely wrong and based on his ignorance of what Advaita teaches. I would like to point out though that Avidya/Ajnana (ignorance), Upadhis (limiting adjuncts) and Maithyatva (the unreality of illusions and their sublatability) are taught in the Upanishads though, for example in:

Katha Up. 2.3.13: "He is to be realised first as Existence limited by upadhis and then in His true transcendental nature."
Katha Up. 2.2.1: " He who meditates on Him grieves no more; liberated from the bonds of
ignorance, he becomes free"
Svetasvatara Up. 1.10: "Through constant meditation on Him, by union with Him, by the knowledge of identity with Him, one attains, in the end, cessation of the illusion of phenomena."

>>14697965
>Ràmànuja's arguments were further elaborated upon by his commentators Sudarsana and Vedànta Desika in the Srutaprakâsikâ and Satadüsani respect. Satadushani is a work written by Vedanta Desika who lived in the 12th century. He is considered as one among the most illustrious Acharya of the Vaishnavite tradition and is the leader of the Vadagalai sect of the Vaishnavas. Though the title of the work suggests hundred refutations, only 66 of them are now available.
All of Vedanta-Desika's arguments were refuted by Advaitins, for a detailed summary of how Vedanta-Desika's arguments were garbage you can read the picture here >>14699337 or read the book it's in, it's the chapter on post-Shankara Advaita in "The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy". Here are some typical examples of the quality of Vedanta-Desika's argument and how the Advaitins replied and debunked his arguments, taken from the book:

(1) If Brahma is qualityless and indeterminate then there can be no inquiry into its nature, for all inquiries are possible about qualified objects only. No knowledge, whether general or specific, is possible about an unqualified Brahma. Again, if Brahma is beyond thought and language, the Vedanta-texts would not reveal it and this knowledge of Brahma would be false and would not lead to liberation.
The advaitin replies that the opponent is confusing between the relative and the absolute standpoints. The Vedanta-texts do not say that Brahma can be known as an ‘object’ of thought; they reveal Brahma as transcendent to thought and language and teach that Brahma being the self-luminous Self is realised through immediate experience. Thought, language and the Vedanta-texts are transcended only on Brahma-realisation, not before. They work efficiently on the empirical level and point to immediate experience as the ultimate goal.

>>14653259
>Rene Guenon(pbuh) General
Based...

>>14633351
>implying you are not the guenonposter
>he still sees multiplicity
You are deluded by maya, my friend. Shed your ignorance by reading Guénon and join me!

>>14621591
>implying that the material world is the real world
>implying we should take seriously a syphilitic-ridden fool who didn't have the emotion fortitude to resist a nervous collapse at the sight of a horse being beaten
>14621696
Wrong, he said that some like Protestantism were almost devoid of value and were more like specialized schools of philosophy, and even in the religions that have great value it's not that everything in it is equally true and valuable but sometimes that the essential and most valuable teachings are the province of esoterism within that religion.
>>14621831
based
>>14621874
based
>>14621913
supra-based
>>14621914
>They are the philosophies of pessimistic resentment
How can there be any resentment for one regards all beings as being identical with and permeated by his own Self?
>>14621954
Swami Sarvapriyananda lectures on youtube. If you are intimidated by the texts you can begin with a fairly short and accessible one like the Ashtavakra Gita at this link

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>>14616413
based