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Just read the Bhagavad Gita. I want to read more. I want to know more about Brahman, and the Atman. What a fascinating cosmology and metaphysics! Where do I go from here, anons?

>> No.16705518

>>16705491
Start with the Greeks

>> No.16705522

>>16705491
Plato and the Bible

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>>16705491
Yoga Vasistha
You're welcome

>> No.16705581

>>16705491
Difficult to say, Hinduism is very diverse. For more context for the Gita perhaps you could familiarise yourself with the whole Mahabharata (that the Gita is a part of). A decent abridged version is the one by John D. Smith in the Penguin classics range.

>> No.16705670

>>16705546
thats a bit intense for someone new to the concepts,
yoga sutra, and upanishad to star with, an easy reading upanishad is easwaren but its a bit diluted but another easy starting one is juan mascaros tranlation, then you could read the epics mahabarata and ramayana and try some purunas which one the stories of certain gods, for example to know about shiva and his stories look for a shiva mahapurana same with vishuna and brahman/lakshmi ect not that crucial unless you are interested in the certain gods

>> No.16705794

>>16705518
Always good.
>>16705522
Nice.
>>16705491
Shankara. Guenon.

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>>16705491

>> No.16706221

>>16705491
You can try reading these to see an example of a medieval prose commentary on the Upanishads, these are by the influential theologian/philosopher Shankara. The Upanishads are the source scriptures from which many of the concepts in the Bhagavad-Gita are taken.

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

>> No.16706278

>>16705491
Lord of Light.

>> No.16706310

ashtavakra gita
takes like an hour to read, you can do it today and then read whatever else has been posted itt

>> No.16706385

>>16706125
bhakti yoga is not an offical scripture so to speak,, brahma sutra is good but yoga sutras should be read before as brahma sutra can be quite dense depending on translation

>> No.16706390

>>16706310
based book, but wouldnt you recomend some thing before hand due to its non-duelistic nature i feel like you would need some preliminary knowledge to truly understand what the dialog is about

>> No.16706398

>>16706390
hmmm maybe you're right, perhaps just shift it further back along the list or read it twice

>> No.16706470

>>16706398
definitely worth reading though

>> No.16706633

>>16705491
Autobiography of a Yogi is a great start

>> No.16706647

>>16705491
Inwards.

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16706657

so you've realized that there is one unbroken soul.
this implies that there is one origin (I know it says never created, never destroyed but both of those imply a relationship with time, it's a semantic short-coming when speaking of the meta-physical).
You also know that the soul has one nature.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

>> No.16706660

>>16705491
which translation did you read i have a copy of the bhagavad gita as it is i picked up from goodwill

>> No.16706724

>>16706125
This needs serious work.

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16706859

>>16706657
Based and Ibn-Arabi pilled

>> No.16707001

>>16706660
Read any one except the Hare Krishna one

>> No.16707166

>>16707001
that's the one it is lol the description on the back saying it was endorsed by some international committee made me uneasy

>> No.16707175

>>16707166
They're everywhere because it's religious propaganda

>> No.16707229

>>16707175
that sucks then is the penguin classics version worth picking up

>> No.16707324

>>16705491
Brahman is the big Tao.
Atman is the small Tao.

>> No.16707509

>>16706125

This chart needs a lot of work.

>>16707229
Bhagvad gita has various versions based on translations and the translators understanding of Sanskrit and interpretations. Gyanis or knowledgeable people used to debate on topics of dharm. Srimad bhagwad Geeta too came as a teachers advise to his disciple. Unless you can read the original Sanskrit manuscript(which does not exist because this itself was a compilation by Vyas) and form an interpretation without bias there would be no other translation which would not be influenced. I'd say get one and read it anyway. The only consideration would be the person writing it, their history with Hinduism and the personal biases.

>> No.16707550

>>16706657
Why would you need to bring in the Quran when that concept is already found in Hinduism?

>> No.16708181

>>16705491
bathroom

>> No.16708560

>>16707550
>why would you need to bring in monotheism when we already have polytheism?
am I missing something?