/lit/ - Literature

>>18329471
>Oh that's a nice sutra my faux-Buddhist friend, but perhaps you didn't know that it was directly taken from the Pre-Buddhist Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. I don't even think you are Atman enough to bathe in the corpse filled Ganges, perhaps next time you utter such a phony shloka in my presence you keep in mind that Indians are far superior than either of us.

>>17708716
I'd sooner be a secularist than a cringey orientalist larper

>>17607270
No, I’m not. I think Buddhism is largely nonsense and that their metaphysics are all wrong outside of a few schools that are just crypto-Shaivism or crypto-Daoism. And if that weren’t bad enough they infuse everything with some gay progressive moralism.

Westerners have joined other eastern religions like Islam and Hinduism and succeeded.

Bodhinatha Veylanswami (pic related) was born in California in 1942, he is now the current head of a centuries-old traditional Shaivite Nath order, after having that position passed to him by its Indian head. He is a living example that Evola was wrong, among various other figures.

>>17398728
Just spend some time doing research and find a branch which is authentic and whose teachings appeal to you. I myself may choose to become initiated into possibly the Veerashaiva or Śrī Vidyā traditions of Hinduism at some point. You can always travel to a temple of that branch and talk with some of their members and clergy first to ask questions about it and so on.
>>17398746
>You might as well convert to judaism. You will always be out of place if you are not born hindu.
Complete nonsense
>>17398825
>For hinduism the hostility toward non-hindus is often overt
Not true or highly variable, many, many Indians are very happy to see Westerners who take and practice Hinduism as seriously as they do
>>17399626
>Who?
Bodhinatha Veylanswami (pic related) is the current and 163rd head of one of the branches of the Nandinatha Sampradya Shaivite tradition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhinatha_Veylanswami

>>17399044
With Atma Bodha, and then with his collection of 8 Upanishad commentaries translated by Gambhirananda, enjoy

https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ShankaraAtmaBodha.pdf
https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf
https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-vol2.pdf