/lit/ - Literature

>>21464164
im 31 kkhv neet just read cioran UG zappfe etc etc

check these out OP

(sufi)
http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/hadiqat.pdf
(vedantic)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.490169

also this >>13997437

>>13842402
The external reality of appearances isn't actually real but the consciousness that witnesses it is, and this consciousness is really upon closer inspection the same thing as the eternal undivided homogenous awareness-bliss forming the reality underlying all apparent realities

>>13413059
Because the Brahma Sutras is a smriti text derived from the teachings of the sruti texts and as such mention the teachings of the Upanishads constantly. It's helps to have some level of familiarity with the material that the Brahma Sutras is a synthesis of in order to understand it. When you read through some of Shankara's Upanishad commentaries he explains exactly how we can deduce a certain meaning and teaching from the text, that way when you read through his Brahma Sutra commentary, you will be able to understand what he is talking about when he cites Upanishad passages because you'll have read his explanation of others before.

Even if you haven't read the exact Upanishad passage he is referencing in the Brahma Sutras once you read enough of them you'll be able to understand almost all of his citations and references just drawing from your knowledge of his commentaries on the other ones. The more of his Upanishad commentaries that you read first the more of his commentary you'll understand in depth because it's replete with citations from them, although you don't have to read all his Upanishad commentaries to understand his Brahma Sutra commentary. There will likely be an initial adjustment period where you will have to pay close attention to what he writes to get what he is saying, but once the meaning of what he is saying hits you it becomes clear that he is a very lucid thinker. This is another reason why it can be good to start with the Vol.1 of the 8 Upanishad commentaries, because when you read his commentaries on some of the shorter ones only a few dozen pages long you get to read an example of him fully explaining an idea and then drawing it to a conclusion, but with the Brahma Sutras you have different trains of thought stretching on for hundreds of pages.

Upanishads > Granth Sahib > Quran > Bible > Pali Canon > Talmud

non-dualism > panentheism < pantheism

>>12952915