/lit/ - Literature

>>14677428
Greetings anon, I have been doing a deep dive through Hindu literature for the past several years as well. I hope that you enjoy what you have read as much as I have. A good place to begin is the Rene Guenon's (pbuh) book "Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines', it helps to clear away many misconceptions people may have about Hinduism. You can read it below.

https://archive.org/details/reneguenon/page/n4/mode/2up

After this you want to begin with reading the Upanishads, as they are the 'Sruti' or revealed texts which most Hindu sects consider to be the most important, and a lot of later Hindu writings are based. I recommend reading them with Shankara's commentaries, he is one of the most important and influential Hindu philosophers and his commentaries are a great joy to read, combining wonderful prose with awe-inspiring insight and logic. The Buddhists on this board hate him because he criticizes Buddhism in his writing, so just ignore all the spam by them about him being a 'crypto-Buddhist'. Shankara's Upanishad commentaries are the first set of major commentaries on the Upanishads by any Hindu thinker which we know of, the other later Vedanta school founders that came after Shankara either never wrote any Upanishad commentaries like Ramanuja or they wrote much less and they have not been translated. If you want a translation of the Upanishads to read without commentary Olivelle's are good. Below are links to 8 out of the 11 Upanishad commentaries Shankara wrote, you can try checking them out to see if you like them.

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf
https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-vol2.pdf

The Bhagavad-Gita can be read anytime but preferably after you've read at least a few Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras should be read only after you have already read all of the Mukhya (primary) Upanishads as it references them a lot. I would recommend reading the Vedas only after one has read a lot of other Hindu philosophy. A good Purana to begin with would be the Vishnu Purana or the Bhagavata Purana (translated as Srimad Bhagavata by Tapasyananda). Some other good/important texts worth reading The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Vivekachudamani, Adhyatma Ramayana, the Yoga Vasistha, and Jnanadeva's Bhavartha Deepika and Amritanubhava. There is a mountain of great literature just within the Vedanta and Yoga schools alone, and then on top of this there a lot of great writings/philosophy from Hindu Tantra also like Kashmir Shaivism.

Sanskrit.

>>13162361
Stop immersing yourself in video games and other electronic media and you'll be progressing through them in no time at all!

>>13042442
yes

Whats disgusting is to your bifurcation of the Godhead. It pervades everything? Where does it err?