/lit/ - Literature

>>16785314
no, it's a hint of what is a part of the correct vision >>16784901

>>16785295
Because it doesn't refer to why we exist in "illusion" in the first place, or if dissolution into Brahman like a drop in the ocean, losing our individuality, is the goal how did we come to be if we're meant to not be? The error here is that you make Brahman enter into a bad state as ourselves: when Brahman shouldn't even recognize the existence of different states to deluded himself within, they shouldn't even exist since he's beyond plurality and difference according to you, the mere existence of illusion contradicts your claims about Brahman.

>>16698999
>enneads confirmed

>>16421144
§5.2.1.The One is all things and is not one thing. For it is the principle of all things, but is not those things, though all things are like it, for they did, in a way, find their way back to the intelligible world, or rather they are not there yet but will be.
How, then, do they arise out of a simple One, given that there is neither apparent variegation nor any doubleness whatsoever in that which is self-identical?
In fact, it is because there was nothing in it that all things came from it; and, in order that Being should exist, it is itself not Being, but the generator of it. Indeed, this is, in a way, the first act of generation. Since it is perfect, due to its neither seeking anything, nor having anything, nor needing anything, it in a way overflows and its superabundance has made something else. That which was generated reverted to it and was filled up and became what it is by looking at it, and this is Intellect. The positioning of it in relation to the One produced Being; its gazing upon the One produced Intellect. Since, then, it positions itself in relation to the One in order that it may see, it becomes Intellect and Being at the same time. Intellect, then, being in a way the One and pouring forth abundant power, produces things that are the same as it – Intellect is, after all, an image of the One – just as that which is prior to it in turn pours forth.
And this activity, arising from the substantiality of Intellect, belongs to Soul, which becomes this while Intellect remains still. For Intellect also came to be while that which was before it remained still. But Soul does not remain still when it produces; rather, being moved, it generated a reflection of itself. It looked to the intelligible world from where it came to be, it was filled up, and it proceeded to another and contrary motion, generating a reflection of itself, namely, sense-perception and nature as it is found in plants. Nothing of what is before it is separated or cut off. For this reason, the Soul from above also seems to extend down to plants, for Soul does, after all, extend down in a definite manner, since there is life in plants. Of course, not all of Soul is in plants, but it comes to be in them because of the way it is; it advanced all the way down to them, producing another real existent by its procession and its desire for what is inferior to it. And since the part of Soul prior to this was dependent on Intellect, it leaves Intellect alone to remain by itself.

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>Therefore, we speak of the triad in that realm, in the sense that it signifies an undifferentiated multiplicity, and again the dyad signifies the cause of that multiplicity, and the monad is related to these as the One itself, as that which is beyond this very multiplicity. And this is the celebrated intelligible triad, which, wishing to explain by means of different configurations, we are unaware that we render it more complex in our accounts, and especially when we make it an ennead, reckoning it as the complete leader of all things from the first until the lowest, observing it as if in a mirror, and seeing it in the third, since it is by nature trimorph, and seeing the triadic principles before it that appear to illuminate brilliantly its three ubiquitous forms, as if in a cloud that has three reflecting surfaces, the single color of the sun appears as an apparently polychrome rainbow. And so also Socrates in the Philebus was unable to gaze in the face of that One, and clarified its nature by means of the triad stationed at its threshold, as he says, because he caught a glimpse of that triad quivering with the single ray of the henad, in a completely unified vision.
zenith

>>15912642
/thread

>>15813288
>plotinus and shankara
plotinus is closest to vishishtadvaita not fucking shankara

>>15627269
/thread
also
fuck shankara