Is this the way? I like that it seems to try to come to truth through reason instead of just citing scripture and alleged divine revelation.

>>40717310 (OP)
It goes beyond reason, because awareness is more fundamental than mind.

Advaita is not the complete truth, but it is an important step on the path to the truth.

>>40717310 (OP)
It literally came about because they wanted to do Buddhism but still cite the Vedas.

Budhism and anything related to India is retarded. One of the most defeatist religions ever.

>Suffering comes from desires so basically just stop desiring and caring.
Wow, so deep. Even below desert death cults (aka Abrahamic religions).

>>40717310 (OP)

I think Ramakrishna gets it right. The correct understanding of the Upanidhads, and Vedanta, is that Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are both divine. One is not greater than the other. Nor is Saguna Brahman an illusion. Illusion is something we project upon Saguna Brahman.

I have also studied Shankaracharyas famed commentary on the Gita, and they seem forced interpretations.

Not that I don't think Advaita is a valid perspective, it is, but it is not the bigger picture of the Upanishads IMO.

>>40717310 (OP)
Some links for you bros
>Ashtavakra Gita
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.490169/
>Avadhuta Gita
https://archive.org/details/AvadhutaGitaSwamiChetanananda/
>Ramana Maharshi
https://archive.org/details/who-am-i-ramana-maharshi/
https://youtu.be/9o5OUdIh504
https://youtu.be/jevWr3IIIfc
https://tomdas.com/2020/04/09/ulladu-narpadu-reality-in-forty-verses-by-sri-ramana-maharshi/
>Nisargadatta Maharaj
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/I-Am-That-by-Sri-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.pdf
https://stillnessspeaks.com/images/uploaded/file/iamquotesofnisargadatta.pdf
>7 steps to awakening
https://tomdas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/seven-steps-to-awakening-1.pdf
>Yoga Vasistha
https://estudantedavedanta.net/laghu-yoga-vasishta-english-translation.pdf

>>40718509
>Vivekachudamani
https://estudantedavedanta.net/VivekaChudamani-of-Sri-Shankaracharya.pdf
>Yoga Vasistha Sara
https://sageramana.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Yoga-Vasishtha-Sara.pdf

>>40718189
Nirguna Brahman is General-Being, Saguna Brahman is Specific-Being.

Specific-Being emanates from General-Being, and is thus dependent on it.

are the 4 Pethas of 4 shankaracharyas all the same?
there's a weird controversy about the Seat of Puri..
pic related is a strong, public, defender of Casteism and Untouchability (based ? or cringe and Adharmic?). He specially hates ISKCON and seems to think Mahaprabhu was an Vedantist, not a personalist

The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to spirit which is everlasting.
---Bhagavad Gita

3 shankaracharya of Kanchi in one photo! not at the same time, of course.
the guy in the middle has a legendary status as a saint in parts of india

>>40718080
Nope, that's not the idea. The idea is suffering comes from gratifying one's senses alone. One needs to actively get God involved... Desire is part of the mind so, it's impossible to not have desire. Instead, it's said one should know one's position isn't the owner of the senses and offer their "work" (things they do/who they are, in general) to God. That way you're not feeling "bad" about desires/sense gratification since it's all an offering to God. Eventually, the desire to take part in those sense-gratificatory activities start to go away and you're left with transcendental knowledge of the self and one's true position as eternal servitor of God.

I don’t know much about his life or philosophy but this quote has always stuck with me. Apparently he said this when encountering an old “autist” (…well my interpretation)

>>40717310 (OP)
>If this man is nasty, ill hire him to become nastier.

>>40717310 (OP)
I don't trust Indians.

No. This is not the true path.

>>40721888
Well, that’s just like, your opinion man.

>>40717310 (OP)
It's part of it.

>>40717310 (OP)
Jeet theory

two men regarded as "incarnations of Shiva"

>>40717310 (OP)
Protect the dharma

>>40722383

>>40717310 (OP)
Is buddhism not better?

>>40718509
is this in order of importance? where to start?

I had some intro pdf and it was just a braindump of tons of definitions for all the terminology

>>40720658
https://krishna.org/sankara-indias-greatest-impersonalist-meditated-on-lord-krishna-and-the-bhagavad-gita/

Read the granth sahib

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>>40722383
>>40722443
When I look at these I get the same gut feeling as when I see Imams shouting about allah, that it's alien, smelly and not for me or my people

t. white man

>>40728657
based

our own mythology) was usurped by the jews and replaced

tolkien tried his best to revive it, to appeal to the white man's spirit. by contrast, the bible is boring, sandy, and obsessed with navel-gazing jewish ancestry and laws.

the white man longs for the trees, for colourful gods, and heroic mythology, mixed with stoic philosophy. imagine what a fully-fledged white religion would have looked like if it had been allowed to develop over 2000 years like other religions.

>>40726268
Thanks brother

>>40718080
You can still desire and suffer. It is a matter of choice. I desire, thus I suffer. I endure and overcome the suffering, my desire evolves. This builds character.
Those who avoid desire, in order to avoid suffering, are just running away from themselves.

>>40728671
Based writer.
I hate desaturated games covered with poop filters.

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>>40728671
haha, weakling! you don't praise CELIBATES
coomer beasts!!!

>>40731455
What does celibacy have to do with anything? I admire anyone that can do it because it takes willpower, but it's not something I should be in awe of by default

>>40721640
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>>40733310
Indian hate killed /x/.

>>40733504
Why? were Indians a major contributor of quality content here on /x/ over the years and I just didn't know about it?

>>40733608
Not Indians, per se, but rather Indian esotericism is legit, and really interesting.

my gripe with advaita is all the talk about atman being the same as brahman. you have multiple people that recognize this fact but this is self-defeating. if someone says you are god, you're deluding people into thinking that you are some sort of godly being when you're still as human as everyone else. you can't say you are god but address this fact to everyone. if I were god, I would have the ability to do anything I want but that isn't the case.

>>40735615
God is not his 'abilities'. No one is their 'abilities'. Everyone is their presence-awareness, and this presence-awareness is One.

>>40733310
yes you SHOULD
celibacy is the supreme achievemnt