/lit/ - Literature

>>15102830
Consciousness is also pure bullshit illusion.

>>15102830
There is no entity there!

kys, gnostic

>>15102891
which self can be killed if there is no self hehe

>>15102933
There's an infinity of selves. Kys atheist.
SELVES INTERLINKED WITHIN SELVES INTERLINKED WITHIN ONE STEM

>>15102942
brainlet hylic cope
There is only eternal self the rest is unreal ,roles played by one awareness

''All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.''
Adi Shankara

>>15102977
>devoting yourself to an absolute that doesn't transcend the Same and Rest
more like absolutely limited

as above so below

>>15103042
Limitation are that of condition reality only part of the minds illusion , your nature cannot be a burden. Motion or rest it does not matter once in found oneself in awareness.

>>15103124
You think you've got it, oh, you think you've got it
But “got it” just don't get it 'til there's nothing at all
We get together, oh, we get together
But separate's always better when there's feelings involved
If what they say is “Nothing is forever”
Then what makes, then what makes, then what makes
Then what makes, what makes, what makes love the exception?

In practice you must be a watchful master, as fire arises you see its unreality and put the fire off with your awareness until its dissolved .
Most automatic thoughts come from deep sea of unconscious awareness ,they're not yours you must disregard them.

>>15103202
"This self was indeed Brahman in the beginning. It knew itself only as "I am Brahman." Therefore it became all. And whoever among the gods had this enlightenment, also became That Brahman. It is the same with the seers (rishis), the same with men. The seer Vamadeva, having realized this self as That, came to know: "I was Manu and the sun." And to this day, whoever in a like manner knows the self as "I am Brahman," becomes all this universe. Even the gods cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self. Now, if a man worships another deity, thinking: "He is one and I am another," he does not know. He is like an animal to the gods. As many animals serve a man, so does each man serve the gods. Even if one animal is taken away, it causes anguish to the owner; how much more so when many are taken away! Therefore it is not pleasing to the gods that men should know this."

- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2HkP5gR2g

based kapil never gets credit

A long time ago in China, during the time of Zen Master Lin Chi, there was a monk who was very famous for his Samadhi practicing. This monk, similar to the traditions of digambara, never wore any clothes and was known as the 'naked monk.' He had mastered many kinds of Samadhi, had lots of energy, and didn't need to wear clothes even in winter.
One day Lin Chi decided to test this monk. He called a student of his, gave him a set of beautiful clothes, and asked him to present them to the monk. The student went to the monk and said, 'Ah, you are wonderful. Your practicing is very strong. So my teacher wants to give you these beautiful clothes as a present.' The monk kicked away the clothes and said, 'I don't need these clothes. I have original clothes, from my parents! Your clothes can only be kept a short time, then they will wear out. But my original clothes are never broken. Also, if they become dirty, I just take a shower and they are clean again. I don't need your clothes!'
The student went back to Lin Chi and told him what happened. Lin Chi said, 'You must go to this monk once more and ask him a certain question.' So the student went to the monk and said, 'Great monk! I have one question for you. You said you got your original clothes from your parents.' 'Of course!' said the monk. 'Then I ask you, before you got these original clothes from your parents, what kind of clothes did you have?' Upon hearing this, the naked monk went deep into Samadhi, then into Nirvana and died.

>>15103042
That quote in this context would be attributing movement to the One which Neoplatonism doesn't do anyway, it's stupid of you to post that as Adavita only denies movement in Nirguna Brahman or God (same as Neoplatonism) and not in the world

cease all transcendental thought and
stop larping

>>15102852
An illusion for whom

>>15103440
>>15103440
God is the ultimate larper

"Vivekachudamani...explains that the aparent dissimilarity [between isvara and jiva] results from their respective upadhis. Isvara's upadhi is Maya, while the jiva is limited by the five sheaths. But these are only like the different costumes worn by an actor, with Isvara being the role of the king and the jiva being that of the beggar. The actor is the same - Brahman. Advaita, then, pursues the path of negating each of the five sheaths which we mistake ourselves to be...This process leads us to the understanding that "I" am that Conscousness that is present in everything. SImilarly, the finite, time-bound objects of the world are negated so that Isvara is realized to be that same Consciousness. Then it is seen that I am That.''

>>15102830
Okay so why do we have these desires in the first place? Why does this world exist? What the fuck is the point?

>>15103601
Five psycho-physical aggregrates

>>15102830
Joke's on you. I can be antinatalist and also addicted to heroin

>>15103601
Neurological defect

>>15103601
because of God's power of maya

>>15103394
The One-Being is both rest and change.
The Monad precedes the Five Greatest Kinds and all things; but he as the Unified is also the Unity of all things; and as the Indefinite Dyad he is the Power of all things.
The three are one, the one is beyond himself—Ineffable.
The Absolute is neither the uniform white light nor the prism, nor is he the infinitely polychrome rainbow.
Solely each, solely none of them, solely all of them—simultaneously, yet this is not enough.
For to deny the uniqueness and individuality of each thing, is to deny the individuality and uniqueness of the One which he as Love also accord all things.

>There is an intelligible, which you should contemplate with the flower of your mind. For if you incline your mind toward it and contemplate it as something, you will not contemplate that. It is the power of strength, shining from all sides, fl ashing with the intellectual rays. You should not use force to contemplate that intelligible, but rather the subtle flame of subtle mind that measures all things, except that intelligible. And I ask you to contemplate this not with intensity, but carrying the sacred backward turning eye of your mind extend an empty mind to that intelligible, until you learn the intelligible, since it is fundamentally beyond mind.

>There exists a fire (phlogmos) which has occupied a vessel above the heavens - a fire infinitely in motion, a boundless eternity. It is not within the grasp of the blessed Gods, unless the mighty Father should plan His purposes so that He Himself might be looked upon: in that place the ether does not bear the radiant stars; nor is the luminous moon raised up there. No God meets Him the Father, who is fire on His path, nor am I myself solar Apollo spread out so far as to reach Him, though I whirl through the ether in company with my light-rays. God is fire, a vast channel moving in a spinning motion with a whirring sound. But if someone touched that ethereal fire, he would not feel fear in his heart, for it has not power to burn. Through an unceasing care that derives from God Himself, eternity mingles with eternities. Self-begotten, untaught, without a mother, unshakeable, nameless, many-named, and dwelling in fire - that is God; we are messengers (angeloi), only a small part of God.

>>15103697
The One is unchanging in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, you should really specify which Neoplatonist you are talking about when you make those sorts of posts and stop acting like its all one coherent system as all the Neoplatonists disagree with and contradict one another on various topics

>>15103601

MAYA
meditate brother we are no where near the sages as they had discipline in them and through it they mediated in gods name and took hardcore vows such as brhamcharyata after which they discovered these truths, we are no where there intellectual point also many hindu texts were burned in taxila

>>15103746
>>15103746
"Ramakrishna practiced meditation with yogis, and he said that all these were progressive steps and did not condemn them. Yet with Vivekananda he taught that religion and yoga were not the end, for they can never directly lead to Brahma-gnana. Teachings other than Vedanta are for beginners only. There are stages in comprehending truth. Hence Sri Ramakrishna taught Vedanta--the highest truth--only to Vivekananda. All his other disciples were taught Yoga, mysticism or theology. He kept a Vedanta treatise (Ashtavakra Gita) hidden under his pillow when others came to talk, but when he was alone with Vivekananda he brought the book out and taught him from it."

vows are dogmatic and they didnt have intellect as we have now due to explosion of information and technology, this is the best time to be alive

>>15103805
>He kept a Vedanta treatise (Ashtavakra Gita) hidden under his pillow when others came to talk, but when he was alone with Vivekananda he brought the book out and taught him from it."
my nigga, that text is one of my favorites too