/lit/ - Literature

>>16204021
Im reading the Yoga Vasistha, it's pretty good

>>16204063
Very nice. How do you find if?

Bhagavata Purana and Cavalcare la Tigre

Lately I've been reading a few classic novels and ancient poetry. But with the mentioning above of the Yoga Vasistha and the Bhagavata Purana, I'm starting to crave a Hindu text now.

it's good

as to the popularity of the Traditionalist writers, they never were, at least they were never actually read, beyond maybe Guenon (and only ever via Evola)

>>16204182
Allow me to recommend Ashtavakra Gita, one of my favourite Indian books.

Discourses of Rumi and selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

>>16204188
Even Evola though is now starting to wane it seems. Though, the aforementioned Guenon does seem to be getting a bit more popular. I've noticed more conversation on him across various places I look on in the last few months.

>>16204195
Read it already. It's quite good, though a second reading is highly warranted. Texts of the sort are always best if read more than once.

Please enlighten me if this is a ridiculous sentiment but: whats the general stance on free masonry in relation to perennialism? Authentic or inauthentic tradition?
Any recommended texts about it from this perspective?

>>16204182
Is there a school or sect of Hinduism which you would like to learn about more? If so I may be able to offer you a recommendation for a text to read

>>16204793
OP here. What would you recommend as your own most motivating text. What inspires you the most to really dig your heals into the path, turn away from vanity and renew your practice?

>>16205102
I have yet to find any Hindu scripture or philosophical writing which I have enjoyed reading as much or which have had as big of an impact upon me as Shankara's Upanishad commentaries, although I've still encountered some pretty profound works of other schools/sects and now after having read most of Shankara am enjoying the process of beginning to increasingly acquire and read the works of those other schools like Vishishtadvaita, Kashmir Shaivism, the Naths, Shaktism etc. If you already have a working grasp of Hindu philosophy which can be acquired from reading 1 or 2 books on the subject then you can start reading these and it should generally make sense. Even if some passages or a certain discussion might not make sense, just keep reading and soon enough you will gradually piece together the context of what he is saying and see how it applies to your own consciousness etc.

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

>>16204021
Kinneging, Strauss, Scheler

>>16204188
Have you read picrel? I am rn and it's pretty good, tho he's wrong in a few places.

>>16204021
I am thinking about reading either Locke or Hume, two great writers from the Western tradition.

>>16204493
Some masonic groups are very different from others, and they have also changed over time as well, so it’s difficult to come to any accurate across-the-board judgement. De Maistre was a freemason for example but so were many of the founding fathers of America.

Does perennialism equals religious pluralism?

>>16206113
no

>>16204793
Been considering Samkhya a lot lately. Though for any time I've read books on Hinduism in the last 3 months or so, it's been mostly related to Advaita Vedanta.

>>16208968
Read the Samkhya Sutra of Kapila and the Samkhya karika of Ishvarakrishna. Then, read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which as one of the important Yoga texts takes the ideas of the earlier Samkhya and adopts them with a few modifications. Then you can read the Yoga Yajnavalkya which is another important Yoga text elaborating on the same ideas.

>>16204021
>traditionalist
>>/x/

>>16204021
>traditionalist
>perennials souls
>>16204063
>Yoga Vasistha
>>16204172
>Bhagavata Purana and Cavalcare la Tigre
>>16204182
>I'm starting to crave a Hindu text now.
>>16204195
>Allow me to recommend Ashtavakra Gita
>>16204188
>Guenon
>>16204202
>Discourses of Rumi and selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer
>>16205295
>Shankara
>>16205793
>Kinneging, Strauss, Scheler
>>16208968
>Advaita Vedanta.
>>16209138
>Read the Samkhya Sutra of Kapila and the Samkhya karika of Ishvarakrishna
>Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
>Yoga Yajnavalkya

>>16204021
The only way to achieve real immortality is through AI.

>>16204021
>doesn't seem to be talked about these days
That's because guenonposter scared them away. I posted a thread a few months ago (I'm the guy who posted the Sacred Web Conference videos), and there was some good discussion, but it's not the same.

>>16204021
>Is it just a matter of having grown out of this hole?
Yes, /lit/ grew out of the hole of traditionalism.

>>16209170
>"refuted by the Chinese argument"

bump

if traditionalist you are? = to perennialist. do you think of the Ovist.

>>16205295
Cheers. I'll stick with Shankara for now.
>>16206070
Fair enough. Thanks. Reason I ask is because I'm thinking I might join. Seems to be one of the only traditions I could join were I am.
>>16209179
Did you post that vid of Prince Charles? I was impressed with his articulate support for the notion.

>>16210757
The Prince Charles video was part of the OP template, but it is in the Sacred Web Conference 2006 DVD.

>>16205830
I haven't, but thanks for the rec. I started the Study Quran which was edited by Nasr (I've read one of his books years before, Man and Nature or something like that), but decided to get more background on Muhammad's life before continuing, that context seems very necessary.

Another Nasr on my to-read list is In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought