/lit/ - Literature

>>16593146
How does it feel? being retarded i mean

>>16593146
>anti solipsists on suicide watch
Are you on a forum that talks about this or do you actually have to read him?

>>16593146
Eckhart Tolle is the worst author of spiritualism. He just rambles on and on over and over like every other author like him, but for many long paragraphs.
Everything he's saying can be summarized in a single chapter or so. But he has to talk about "being in the now" over and over again that it's impossible to actually skim his books because his good messages end up being stuck in spiritual circlejerking.

>>16593146
reading him counts as looking elsewhere

>>16593146

This self was indeed Brahman in the beginning. It knew itself only as "I am Brahman."
Therefore it became all. And whoever among the gods had this enlightenment, also
became That Brahman. It is the same with the seers (rishis), the same with men. The seer
Vamadeva, having realized this self as That, came to know: "I was Manu and the sun." And
to this day, whoever in a like manner knows the self as "I am Brahman," becomes all this
universe. Even the gods cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self.
Now, if a man worships another deity, thinking: "He is one and I am another," he does not
know. He is like an animal to the gods. As many animals serve a man, so does each man
serve the gods. Even if one animal is taken away, it causes anguish to the owner; how
much more so when many are taken away! Therefore it is not pleasing to the gods that men
should know this.

>>16595378
Where is this from? The Upanishads?

>>16595462
>>16595378
pajeets are such circle jerking faggots i really pity them

>>16595468
ok reductive materialist

>>16595462

It is Brihadaranyaka Upanishad verse 1.4.10

Shankara's lengthy commentary on the verse can be read here

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-brihadaranyaka-upanishad/d/doc117939.html

>>16595378
Why are retards on /lit/ still arguing that Advaita started with Shankara (or Gaudapada if we talk about the brighter of the bunch) when the earliest (and pre-buddhist mind you) upanishads are littered with such verses?

>>16595838
It’s mostly this 1 neurotic guy who is always posting about that in every thread, plus a few other buddhists who repost his images. He is dishonest, vitriolic and has no interest in a real debate about such matters but seems to view it as almost like an information war with which he has become obsessed.

Why do you consider Gaudapada to be brighter?

bump

>>16593146

>>16595378
>Even the gods cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self. Now, if a man worships another deity, thinking: "He is one and I am another," he does not know.
>either/or