/lit/ - Literature

>>11120047
>In this metaphysics what (or who) is aware of the waves as waves?

Brahman (Guenon uses Brahma) is the highest metaphysical reality and escapes all definitions and words, constituting the truly inexpressible. Nevertheless we can attempt to describe it within the bounds that language present. Brahma is described throughout advaitic literature as being pure awareness or pure consciousness. Not a consciousness that has discursive thoughts and goes from the contemplation and consideration of one subject to another, but pure undifferentiated awareness. The point Guenon makes in his books about the highest metaphysical understanding occupying a realm where there is no distinction between knowledge and being it itself used in the Advaitic texts to describe Brahma; truly understanding the nature of Brahma is to reveal all that is (including the self) to be Brahma, there no longer being any perception of difference or separateness.

Advaita teaches that the being is divided into the non-Atma (mind, memory, emotions, cognition etc) and the Atma, which is the witness behind all of these but which does not participate in them, remaining unchanged by them or anything else, remaining forever stainless, at peace and unconditioned. Atma alone gives meaning to the being. Atma is the witness of everything in the being, without Atma there be nothing real left, and no witness to anything pertaining to the being. When you read Advaitic texts or Guenon your mind processes the idea of non-duality and you consider it from various angles; deep down though at the heart of the being, behind the mind, logic, urges, memory and the rest is the one witness Atman, which is pure awareness observing these. So in a way it is Brahma being aware of itself, through the filtered and relative viewpoint of the conditioned and manifested being; although since that at the core of that being is Atma, it can be considered in a way as a manifest state of Brahma coming closer to awareness of the truth of its non-duality.

I really recommend reading Advaita texts. They and Guenon's writings complement each other.

>>11120064
It was fine at first but the last thread turned into shitposting and arguing so I imagine that's why they pruned it

>>11029221
>Can't help but feel some of these guys are homosexual cucks dreaming about dominant (Aristocratic) men leading society. Or even worse jacking it to their own reflection in the mirror.

You couldn't be more wrong anon. Getting deep into this these ideas necessarily entails understanding that all is the One and that individual differences and all other contingencies are illusionary. With some of the more political ones like Evola maybe they lost sight of it sometimes but he is the exception rather than the rule.