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[Anonymous No.14446881]

>"A European can hardly be said to be adequately prepared for the study of the Vedanta unless he has acquired some knowledge and understanding of at least Plato, Philo, Hermes, Plotinus, the Gospels (especially John), Dionysius, and finally Eckhart who, with the possible exception of Dante, can be regarded from an Indian point of view as the greatest of all Europeans. The Vedanta is not a “philosophy” in the current sense of the word, but only as the word is used in the phrase Philosophia Perennis, and only if we have in mind the Hermetic “philosophy” or that “Wisdom” by whom Boethius was consoled. Modern philosophies are closed systems, employing the method of dialectics, and taking for granted that opposites are mutually exclusive. In modern philosophy things are either so or not so; in eternal philosophy this depends upon our point of view. Metaphysics is not a system, but a consistent doctrine; it is not merely concerned with conditioned and quantitative experience, but with universal possibility. It therefore considers possibilities that may be neither possibilities of manifestation nor in any sense formal, as well as ensembles of possibility that can be realized in a given world. The ultimate reality of metaphysics is a Supreme Identity in which the opposition of all contraries, even of being and not-being, is resolved"


http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=The_Vedanta_and_Western_Tradition_by_Ananda_Coomaraswamy.pdf

[Anonymous No.14447000]

>>14446881
this is what always makes me cringe about trads. the strawmen he sets up. plus he doth protest too much. why is he seething mad if he's got it all figured out. the resentment is palpable. obsessed

[Anonymous No.14447149]

>>14447000
does he sound seething mad in that essay? I don't think so

[Anonymous No.14447354]

>>14446881
>>14446914
Respond to this faggot

[Anonymous No.14447379]

Great quote from Coomaraswamy. Ironically it is the westerners themselves who have lost all sense of the sacred, not the tradition itself.

I find this example from the life of Thomas Merton to be quite similar.
> While there he [a Hindu Monk ,Mahanambrata Brahmachari] had many discussions with religious thinker Thomas Merton. Merton was surprised when Brahmachari directed Merton to explore his own Christian tradition and spiritual roots rather than learn more about Hinduism.[3] Merton acknowledged the role of Brahmachari in making him discover Catholicism[4]

[Anonymous No.14448748]

>>14446881
Why did he like Dante so much that he would put him above Jesus

[Anonymous No.14448893]

dis nigga name is coom

[Anonymous No.14448904]

Don't you love it when pooinloos unironically pretend like their brainlet basic bitch religion is some kind of mystical pail of forbidden knowledge locked away from the uninitiated westerners? Clean your fucking streets from shit before trying to teach me philosophy, Pajeet

[Anonymous No.14448932]

>filthy Europeans are too dumb to truly understand the Holy Faeces

[Anonymous No.14448945]

>>14448932
>Joker shorts
Truly, they exist within a society

[Anonymous No.14448949]

>>14448748
Jesus didn't write anything (except possibly a letter to King Abgar).

[Anonymous No.14448976]

>>14448949
So what, doesn't he consider Jesus to be the son of God? That seems like higher credentials than having written a book.

[Anonymous No.14448981]

>>14448976
Christ is the Logos, hardly a mere human among men.

[Anonymous No.14448996]

>>14448976
He mentions the gospels right there dumbass. Jesus didn't write a book, so how are you going yo read anything about him outside of the Gospels?

[Anonymous No.14449199]

>>14448996
Are you really that dumb or just pretending?

[Anonymous No.14449221]

>>14448949
>>>14448683 (OP)
and some scribbles in the sand

[Anonymous No.14449228]

>>14448904
cope