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>Read the Vedas
>Full of weird incantations and ritual sacrifice instructions
>Ok maybe the Baghavad Gita will clear things up
>Just a bunch of justification for murder and violence and a deity even less credible than Jesus
>Ok maybe the Upanishads will clear things up
>Start reading
>Some decent ecstatic poetry
>Keep waiting for philosophy but it never comes
>Adi Sankara's commentaries seem to be almost exclusively escapism and wish-fulfillment fantasy (and his biography is as mythical as a presocratic)
>Ok maybe some yogis will clear things up
>Patanjali is pure fantasy, Vivekenanda's arguments collapse immediately with modern science, Ramakrishna is so syncretic to the point of being
practically Christian
>Maybe Guenon will reveal the truth...
>Guenon just assumes it's all true and starts talking about judging all religions based off one strain of Hinduism (advaita vedanta)
Is Traditionalism, dare I say it, wrong?

>> No.11095261

>>11094934
Enlightenment isnt in some book.

>> No.11095266

What's the Start With The Greeks equivalent for India? Proceed With The Poos?

>> No.11095271

Inb4 300 replies

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11095285

>>11095266

>> No.11095397

Just focus on Tantra and ignore all the rest of it.

>> No.11095425

>>11095397
Enjoy your avidya.

>> No.11095442

>>11095425
>implying the mind can defeat itself through conscious intellection

>> No.11095450

but did you read it in sanskrit?

>> No.11095455

>>11095425
>implying you can go straight to Tantra without first attaining high conscious intellection

>> No.11095472

>>11095442
Code for deleting and creating files can be written into the same program. If a toy can do it so can your mind which the toy is based on.

>> No.11095476

>>11095472
As jim morrison said "learn to forget"

>> No.11095546

>>11095425
*vidya

>> No.11095574

>>11094934
>I can't read books in their context and everything must be a physics textbook!

The literal state of /lit/

>> No.11095583

>>11095546
t. Rakshasa

>> No.11096091

>>11094934
It is wrong. Go with buddhism instead. Its enlightenment stuff can get away without reincarnation and you get there through reductionism of non-symbolic flavor.
Perrenialism works because people have similar brains, not because of unbroken chain of tradition.

>> No.11096101

>>11096091
>buddhism
>without reincarnation
That's not really Buddhism then.

>> No.11096109

>>11094934
9/10 elaborate trolling

>> No.11097184

>>11095450
Did you? Fuck off

>> No.11098097
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11098097

Hindusim is a beastly religion.
>pic related

>> No.11098222

>>11098097
I often wonder how if one was writing a fantasy book how you would go about describing imagery such as this being in the temples, or sacred books, of your fictional civilization and not have it come across as edgy offbrand satanism.

>> No.11098237

>>11095285
Is this esotericism for ants?

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11098267

>>11098097
>he doesn't pleasure women like they have never been pleasured before while also feeling the weight of impermanence and the immanence of mortality in that moment

>> No.11098344

>>11096101
Buddhism has rebirth, not reincarnation.

>> No.11100651

>>11096109
OP is 100% correct.

>> No.11100712

Gee it's almost like you're retarded

>> No.11101523

>>11098097
This is hottt.

>> No.11101965

>>11098097
it is beastly to the ego which She mercilessly destroys through the harnessing of the transformative serpent energies

>> No.11102009

Ah yes, Krishna. So powerful. He protects India against everything but western science, imperialism, and colonialism...

>> No.11102735

>>11098222
>satanism

>> No.11102852

Decalcify your pineal and you may be able to see the patterns

>> No.11102872

>>11102009
>India is beasted by Muslims and Christians
Is Yahweh, dare I say, more powerful than Brahma?

>> No.11102951

>>11094934
>weird incantations and ritual sacrifice instructions
So what do traditionalists do with these?
>Keep waiting for philosophy but it never comes
Waiting may not be the best form of action.
>seem to be
But is it?
>Patanjali is pure fantasy
I love fantasy. Don't you? Something pure in India? It's a Miracle! Hallelujah!
>Ramakrishna is so syncretic to the point of being practically Christian
Is there something wrong with Christianity?
>Is Traditionalism, dare I say it, wrong?
Only if you are its full embodiment.