/lit/ - Literature

>>14634298
Unironically the Upanishads. Hindu society is an outward expression of their religion and you’ll find lots of justification in their texts.

For example
>Let him meditate on speech as a cow. Her four udders are the words of Svaha, Vashat, Hanta, and Svadha. The gods live on two of her udders, the Svaha and the Vashat, men on the Hanta, the fathers on the Svadha. The bulk of that cow is breath (prana), the calf the mind. -8th Brahmana, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

>>14634406
>The bulk of that cow is breath
What is the Upanishadic meaning of the excrement of said cow then? Should one meditate on its odour to lead one to having the non-dual realization?

>>14634406
>Hindu sages sat with each other talking about cow udders
kek is there more of this insanity?

Anglos

>>14634416
>Now follows the udgîtha of the dogs. Vaka Dâlbhya, or, as he was also called, Glâva Maitreya, went out to repeat the Veda (in a quiet place).
>A white (dog) appeared before him, and other dogs gathering round him, said to him: 'Sir, sing and get us food, we are hungry.' The white dog said to them: 'Come to me to-morrow morning.' Vaka Dâlbhya, or, as he was also called, Glâva Maitreya, watched. The dogs came on, holding together, each dog keeping the tail of the preceding dog in his mouth, as the priests do when they are going to sing praises with the Vahishpavamâna.
>After they had settled down, they began to say 'Om, let us eat! Om, let us drink! Om, may the divine Varuna, Pragâpati, Savitri bring us food! Lord of food, bring hither food, bring it, Om!'
Source: 12th Khanda, Chandogya Upanishad

>>14634426
>The dogs came on, holding together, each dog keeping the tail of the preceding dog in his mouth, as the priests do when they are going to sing praises with the Vahishpavamâna

>>14634431
>each dog keeping the tail of the preceding dog in his mouth
Yeah... Totally... The tail, if you get what I mean.

>>14634406
>>14634426
I thought the upanishads were enlightening and awe inspiring? This is just grotesque...

This picture has some good information on the diversity of the Upanishads!

>>14634426
>>14634406
Adi Shankara's commentary on these verses is very enlightening. He says,

>Behold, the dogs knew they were really all Atman, so they joined together in one dog-bundle to prove it. For if going and a goer were conceived as different, there could be going without a goer and a goer without going. If things are not established as the same and as different, how can they be established? That very going by which a goer is made evident does not [enable a goer to] go. Because there is no [goer] before going, who would be going where? [A going] which is other than the going by which a goer is made evident does not [enable a goer to] go. Because it is impossible for going to be twofold within a single goer. One who is a goer does not go in the three aspects of going. Also one who is not [a goer] does not go in the three aspects of going. One who is and is not [a goer] also does not go in the three aspects of going. Therefore, going and a goer and also that which is gone over do not exist.

>Therefore, we must shit on the floor to worship Shiva (who doesn't exist).

>>14634523
>>Behold, the dogs knew they were really all Atman, so they joined together in one dog-bundle to prove it. For if going and a goer were conceived as different, there could be going without a goer and a goer without going. If things are not established as the same and as different, how can they be established? That very going by which a goer is made evident does not [enable a goer to] go. Because there is no [goer] before going, who would be going where? [A going] which is other than the going by which a goer is made evident does not [enable a goer to] go. Because it is impossible for going to be twofold within a single goer. One who is a goer does not go in the three aspects of going. Also one who is not [a goer] does not go in the three aspects of going. One who is and is not [a goer] also does not go in the three aspects of going. Therefore, going and a goer and also that which is gone over do not exist.
Simply based! Shankaracharya (pbuh).

>>14634298
>shwedagon pagoda
literally slums start down from the eastern gate

>>14634406
>Aryans come
>Steal cattle from whoever they want
>Butcher cows as they see fit, sacrificing to their strange Gods, cooking the flesh of these odd beasts
>Poo-in-loo is forbidden from touching these beasts
>If you touch a cow, some Aryan warlord will bludgeon you to death, partly due to your disrespect and partly for the fun of it
>Like a bunch of conditioned monkeys, this tradition of respecting cattle is passed down even long after the Aryans are gone
>To this day they are terrified to impede upon sacred cows and treat them like the holiest creatures in the world
>Sages worship them and view them as Godly
>Indians adapt a largely vegan diet because of an innate fear of some warlord brutalizing them - a warlord that no longer exists
Never has there ever been a more cucked religion nor people.

>>14634565
At least Buddhist slums ends.

How the West Won by Rodney Stark

>>14634575
Are aryans the most successful colonizers? Can Indians ever decolonizer their minds like the based enlightened African American Gentlemen?

>>14634575
/pol/ anthropology is truly something

>>14634575
>>14635043
>be rig Veda
>give cows the ephithet of aghnya (not to be killed)
>buffaloes and oxen (not cows) are still sacrificed by non vaishnavites
>millennia later some retard teenager thinks your traditions were a result of corrupted slave mentality
Peak Kali Yuga

>>14634575
>be Indian
>half your dishes involve a dairy product of some sort
>some pol summerfag thinks you’re vegan

Shankara must be doing something right if he can make all the nominalists seethe to the point where they're making images out of commentary.

>>14636604
ok guenonfag

>>14635043
Might makes right and there is nothing mighty about the way Indian society functions, except as a unhealthy probiotic experience.

>>14636990
t. butthurt buddhist

>>14636997
so are u saying the aryans werent seuccessful conquerors as their morality instituted thru might supposedly didnt become followed by indians, or that they were in that mighty about the IVC's morality and societal functions were wiped out?

>>14634298
It depressing seeing how capitalism, communism and industrialization has ruined so many beautiful parts of the world. So much beauty in nature and buildings of great architecture lost to modernization.

>>14636999

>>14637008
I literally cannot understand you.

>>14637045
>equating village traditions more rooted in amusement with available means than faith to religious systems
tard tier

>>14637009
The left was probably always shit because it is located in the middle of town and people burn their dead there.

Modernity is definitely ruining the right one though by making these things into essentially nothing but tourist destinations.

>>14637045
also this video and festibval is from southern indian. Anything outside and even in cluding the traditions of the Pancha Dravida brahmins in that region are subject o massive local and tribal influence. Try seeing if u have the same thing happeneing ina city like varanasi.

>inb4 drinking cow pee
that itself is due to influence from ayurveda homeopathic fags, as opposed to actual religion. The actual atharva veda refers to sprinkling cattle urine upon idols, mostly because urine, especially that from a cow a creature with 3 or 4 stomachs, is a good sterilizing agent.

>>14637114
>all those typos
my bad

>The actual atharva veda refers to sprinkling cattle urine upon idols, mostly because urine, especially that from a cow a creature with 3 or 4 stomachs, is a good sterilizing agent.

>>14637045
Poopoo peepee

>>14637125
>being proud of poopoo peepee philosophy
cringe

>>14637120
Why like this?

>>14637120
>The actual atharva veda refers to sprinkling cattle urine upon idols, mostly because urine, especially that from a cow a creature with 3 or 4 stomachs, is a good sterilizing agent.

guenonfag cannot resist defending his countrymen pissing and shitting on everything. he loves it.

>>14637120
>>14637196
the romans themselves used human urine as a sterilizing agent. it's been a historical fact that urine was used as a sterilizing agent. The buddhist only has ignorance as arguments

>>14637196
nice cherrypicking ]

>>14637262
Iron age mindset here.

>>14636990
Haven't read him.

>>14637457
guenonfag hasn't published anything

>>14637262
You just fucking made up the part about it being done for sterilization though. And it is kinda irrelevant what the Romans did with it until you show that they used to latter their idols up with piss for religious reasons too.

>What do you mean I can't shit and piss all over everything?!

>"From whatever new points of view the Buddha's system is tested with reference to its probability, it gives way on all sides, like the walls of a well, dug in sandy soil. It has, in fact, no foundation whatever to rest upon and hence the attempts to use it as a guide in the practical concerns of life are mere folly. Moreover Buddha, by propounding the three mutually contradicting systems, teaching respectively the reality of the external world, the reality of ideas only and general nothingness, has himself made it clear that he was a man given to make incoherent assertions or else that hatred of all beings induced him to propound absurd doctrines by accepting which they would become thoroughly confused…Buddha’s doctrine has to be entirely disregarded by all those who have a regard for their own happiness."

Adi Shankara - Brahma Sutra Bhasya 2.2.32.

>>14637499
see >>14634523

>>14637499

>>14637480
no im saying it's most likely an action described in the atharva veda due to those reasons. it's used as a cleaning implement within the verses. it isnt going far to assume that the historical use of it as a sterilizing agent would cause them to write about it

>>14637499
cope

>>14635285
why are southies more lactose intolerant

an introduction to the hindu doctrines - guenon