/lit/ - Literature

Here are Shankara's works. It's best to begin with the 8-volume Upanishad commentaries. The more of his Upanishad commentaries that you read first the more you'll understand his commentaries on the two smriti texts the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad-Gita. The Chandogya and Brihadaranyaka commentaries are dense and best read after his shorter Upanishads ones. The Chandogya is also central to the ideas of the Brahma Sutras, it's not necessary but nevertheless a good idea to read Shankara's Chandogya bhasya before his Brahma Sutra Bhasya. The secondary works can be read alongside his commentaries, but are best understood/appreciated after you've already read some of his Upanishad commentaries

>Prasthanatrayi commentaries
http://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf
http://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-vol2.pdf
https://archive.org/details/Brihadaranyaka.Upanishad.Shankara.Bhashya.by.Swami.Madhavananda
https://archive.org/details/Shankara.Bhashya-Chandogya.Upanishad-Ganganath.Jha.1942.English
https://archive.org/details/BrahmaSutraSankaraBhashyaEnglishTranslationVasudeoMahadeoApte1960
https://archive.org/details/Bhagavad-Gita.with.the.Commentary.of.Sri.Shankaracharya

>non-commentary works
http://estudantedavedanta.net/Sri_Shankaracharya-Upadeshasahasri%20-%20Swami%20Jagadananda%20%281949%29%20[Sanskrit-English].pdf
https://gita-society.com/pdf2011/vivekachudamani.pdf
https://archive.org/details/SankaraOnTheYogaSutrasTrevorLeggettMLBD2006
http://estudantedavedanta.net/Sri_Shankaracharya-AtmaBodha%20%28and%20Other%20Stotras%29%20-%20Swami%20Nikhilananda%20%281947%29%20[Sanskrit-English].pdf
http://estudantedavedanta.net/Aparoksha-Anubhuti-by-Sri-Shankaracharya.pdf
https://www.swamij.com/shankara-vakya-vritti.htm
http://shiningworld.com/site/files/pdfs/publications/books/1_Knowledge_of_Truth_Tattva_Bodh.pdf
http://www.vidyavrikshah.org/SIVANANDALAHARI.pdf
http://www.vidyavrikshah.org/SOUNDARYALAHARI.pdf
http://theheartofthesun.com/Nirvana.pdf
http://jagannathavallabha.com/pdf_engl/prasnottara%20english%20for%20amazon.pdf

Guenon (pbuh) chart is the only one you will ever need.

>>14984413
Start with his first book "Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines", when you click on the archive.org link in OP's post it's the one that automatically pop's up. This chart is pretty good, I would recommend reading the book Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta before Symbolism of the Cross, Multiple States of the Being or any of the other books on metaphysics. You are about to be blessed with a most sublime illumination...

>>14940133
>I am ready to begin my initiation....
based.... follow this initiatic chart, brother....
>>14940156
Cringe!

After pic above move on the Guenon you don't have to read everything but definitely learn his interpretation of Hindu metaphysics Evola mentions these quite a bit.

>>14814082
It is preferable to have a Great Teacher like Guenon (pbuh) guide you through the Hindu texts first. Then you can read the Shankarian (pbuh) commentaries on them.
>>14814267
That is one of Yahya (pbuh)'s more mystical texts. It is recommended to read the first three books on the chart first. Other than that, there is no need to have studied profane philosophy to understand him (pbuh). On the contrary, that might be a great barrier to fully taking in his (pbuh) Pure Light.

https://discord.gg/E22wu2Y

Very based, friend.
Thank you for asking. Here is a helpful chart.

>>14748916
>What's real knowledge then?
Read "The Multiple States of the Being" to find out. Just follow this chart, brother.

>>14715599
take this one and disregard all others

>>14724747
Based... Follow this chart, brother. You can also start with the ~100 page long 'The Crisis of the Modern World'.
May Guenon (pbuh) bless you with his radiant light...

Is this legit?

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>>14678923
Rene Guenon was a perennialist author who founded the Traditionalist school of thought and who converted to Islam to become a Sufi but who nevertheless said that the same truth is found in Sufism, Hinduism, Taoism, other religions etc. He has some good books on Hindu metaphysics, among other things; he mostly focuses on Advaita Vedanta in his writings on Hinduism.

Advaita Vedanta was the first school to arise in Hinduism historically that provided a comprehensive and consistent interpretation of the Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita and Brahma Sutras in the form of commentaries on all three explaining how they all contain the same spiritual teaching. Other previous schools like Yoga and Samhkya had claimed to be based on the Upanishads but we don't have any Upanishad commentaries by them which survive which explain word for word how the Upanishads teach their doctrine like the Advaita commentaries do. Other Vedanta schools were formalized after the emergence of Advaita Vedanta as a school, and from the 8th century onwards the various Vedanta schools become one of the most influential areas of Hindu philosophy, with the consequence that some of the other schools were eclipsed in influence and that today most Hindu sects base their metaphysics in one of the Vedanta schools.

Rene Guenon in his writings criticizes modernity, the worship of science (scientism), secularism, Protestantism, process philosophy, modern western philosophy in general, atheism, democracy, progressivism, egalitarianism, utilitarianism etc. Also, Adi Shankara (the main Advaita philospher) criticizes Buddhism in his writings. Because of how Rene Guenon is associated with Advaita Vedanta because of his writings on it, there is a weird confluence on /lit/ where a motley crew of atheists, leftists, Buddhists, materialists, people into process philosophy etc all combine to constantly complain and get upset about Guenon and/or Advaita.

Because the writings of Adi Shankara and Guenon are generally very logical and hard to argue against directly, it causes these people to resort to all sorts of distractions and ad-hominem attacks which allow them to try to smear and attack those things without actually addressing their ideas. With Advaita this takes the form of saying it stole from Buddhism (not true) and denying that it's an influential area of Hindu philosophy (not true) whereas with Guenon it takes the form of accusing everybody who ever posts about him of being this one Boogeyman named "Guenonfag", as soon as you invoke his name it is supposed to discredit the person posting about Guenon and end the discussion but instead of working as intended it became a meme that people laugh at and more people than ever are posting about Guenon. Any time you see someone complaining about 'Guenonfag' it is usually some miserable Buddhist, atheist, communist, tranny etc

>>14665568
none, but I was checking out the Guenon chart earlier today and saw Upton had some books on it. I definitely plan on getting around to him

>>14664460
Thank you for asking, brother. Use the following chart crafted by the local Guénonian scholars.

>>14663005
Follow this chart.
Introduction to Hindu Studies -> Crisis of the modern world

>>14647368
Thank you for asking, brother.
Follow this guide, it shall lead you to the straight path.

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>>14632918
>where do I start with guenon?
here is the official Guenon (pbuh) chart. also follow the wise words of>>14632942
> why is he so popular on /lit/?
because he achieved gnosis and helps us destroy and remove all ignorance & falsehood from this world.

>>14617388
Guenon's The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. It's not about the OT or Christianity in general, he just mentions it sometimes. If you want more stuff about Christian symbolism from him then look into this chart.

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>>14615052
>magic/occult
Retroactively refuted by Guénon (pbuh) in his 'Perspectives on Initiation'. Follow this chart instead.