108 feet tall statue of Adi Shankara to be built in the USA

[Anonymous No.17048266]

/lit/ pilgrimage when


>Kuttalam Peetadhipathi Sri Siddheswarananda Bharati Swamy said that the action plans are getting ready for the installation of 108 feet high statue of Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya in the USA. Swamiji has visited Simhachalam temple along with his followers and performed special puja to Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swany. Speaking to media after darshan, he said they had bought 500 acres of land in the US for the installation of the statue of Shankaracharya, and the premises will have three buildings.

https://www.thehansindia.com/andhra-pradesh/108-ft-tall-shankaracharya-statue-to-be-installed-in-usa-563196

[Anonymous No.17048624]

Where?

[Anonymous No.17048656]

>>17048266
Should replace it with a statue of Guénon

[Anonymous No.17048789]

>only 108 feet
lol

[Anonymous No.17048794]

>>17048789
MOGGED

[Anonymous No.17048799]

i would be very careful about erecting a statue about a cryptobuddhist

[Anonymous No.17048846]

>>17048789
based

[Anonymous No.17048851]

I had a hippie teacher who was really into Shankara. I was surprised to see him on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.17048857]

>>17048789
it is the most auspicious of numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_(number)

[Anonymous No.17048867]

>>17048266
>Kuttalam Peetadhipathi Sri Siddheswarananda Bharati Swamy
>Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya
>Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swany
utterly disgusting language

[Anonymous No.17049130]

>>17048266
holy based....

maybe the new fame in America about Shankaracharya resulting from this eventual statue can help turn America’s youth away from ‘nihilism’ *wink* *wink*

[Anonymous No.17049209]

can I get a quick rundown on Shankara

[Anonymous No.17049362]

>>17049209
I would be careful about reading Advaita Vedanta interpretations such as Shankara's as a commentary to the Upanishads, they are extremely reliant on Buddhist philosophy (Shankara is called a "cryptobuddhist" by most Hindus, and most scholars agree). If you want to read the Upanishads, work through them with editions and commentaries that aren't sectarian, or at least read an interpretation that is closer to the original meaning of the Upanishads, rather than Shankara's 9th century AD quasi-buddhism.

[Anonymous No.17049372]

Indian "journalism" is so fucking tradh they can't even bother saying where

[Anonymous No.17050220]

>>17048266
Worshiping the swami over the truth, very vain.

[Anonymous No.17050281]

>>17049362
Lmao buddhists are pathetic. Just accept Shankara btfoed buddhism from an entire subcontinent.

[Anonymous No.17050525]

what a way to reveal yourself, shankara-fag-kun

[Anonymous No.17050852]

After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College,[37] working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship.[38] He investigated auxins, a class of phytohormones that plays a role in plant vascular cell differentiation.[39][failed verification] Sheldrake and Philip Rubery developed the chemiosmotic model of polar auxin transport.[40]

Sheldrake says that he ended this line of research when he concluded,

The system is circular. It does not explain how [differentiation is] established to start with. After nine years of intensive study, it became clear to me that biochemistry would not solve the problem of why things have the basic shape they do.[39][failed verification]

Having an interest in Indian philosophy, Hinduism and transcendental meditation, Sheldrake resigned his position at Clare and went to work on the physiology of tropical crops in Hyderabad, India,[9] as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) from 1974 to 1978.[7][9] There he published on crop physiology[41] and co-authored a book on the anatomy of the pigeonpea.[42]

[Anonymous No.17050897]

Why do these faggots build statues when shankara and buddha were both against it?

[Anonymous No.17050900]

The book is in three sections, on telepathy, on sense of direction, including animal migration and the homing of pigeons, and on animal precognition, including premonitions of earthquakes and tsunamis. Sheldrake examined more than 1,000 case histories of dogs and cats that seemed to anticipate their owners' return by waiting at a door or window, sometimes for half an hour or more ahead of their return. He did a long series of experiments with a dog called Jaytee, in which the dog was filmed continuously during its owner's absence. In 100 filmed tests, on average the dog spent far more time at the window when its owner was on her way home than when she was not. During the main period of her absence, before she started her return journey, the dog was at the window for an average of 24 seconds per 10-minute period (4% of the time), whereas when she was on her way home, during the first ten minutes of her homeward journey, from more than five miles away, the dog was at the window for an average of five minutes 30 seconds (55% of the time). Sheldrake interpreted the result as highly significant statistically. Sheldrake performed 12 further tests, in which the dog's owner travelled home in a taxi or other unfamiliar vehicle at randomly selected times communicated to her by telephone, to rule out the possibility that the dog was reacting to familiar car sounds or routines.[66] Sheldrake also carried out similar experiments with another dog, Kane, describing the results as similarly positive and significant.[65]

[Anonymous No.17050911]

She also stated that Sheldrake's "analogy between natural regularities and habit" could be found in the writings of C S Peirce, Nietzsche, William James and AN Whitehead.[82]

[Anonymous No.17050951]

>>17048799
Kek

[Anonymous No.17050958]

>>17050897
Power flaunting.

[Anonymous No.17051038]

Josephson became interested in philosophy of mind in the late sixties and, in particular, in the mind–body problem, and is one of the few scientists to argue that parapsychological phenomena (telepathy, psychokinesis and other paranormal themes) may be real.[34] In 1971, he began practising Transcendental Meditation (TM), which had been taken up by several celebrities, including the Beatles.[35]

Winning the Nobel Prize in 1973 gave him the freedom to work in less orthodox areas, and he became increasingly involved – including during science conferences, to the irritation of fellow scientists – in talking about meditation, telepathy and higher states of consciousness.[36] In 1974, he angered scientists during a colloquium of molecular and cellular biologists in Versailles by inviting them to read the Bhagavad Gita (5th – 2nd century BCE) and the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the TM movement, and by arguing about special states of consciousness achieved through meditation. "Nothing forces us," one scientist shouted at him, "to listen to your wild speculations." Biophysicist Henri Atlan wrote that the session ended in uproar.[37]

[Anonymous No.17051045]

In May that year, Josephson addressed a symposium held to welcome the Maharishi to Cambridge.[38] The following month, at the first Canadian conference on psychokinesis, he was one of 21 scientists who tested claims by Matthew Manning, a Cambridgeshire teenager who said he had psychokinetic abilities; Josephson apparently told a reporter that he believed Manning's powers were a new kind of energy.[39] He later withdrew or corrected the statement.[40]

Josephson said that Trinity College's tradition of interest in the paranormal meant that he did not dismiss these ideas out of hand.[41] Several presidents of the Society for Psychical Research had been fellows of Trinity, and the Perrott-Warrick Fund, set up in Trinity in 1937 to fund parapsychology research, is still administered by the college.[42] He continued to explore the idea that there is intelligence in nature, particularly after reading Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics (1975),[43] and in 1979 took up a more advanced form of TM, known as the TM-Sidhi program. According to Anderson, the TM movement produced a poster showing Josephson levitating several inches above the floor.[44] Josephson argued that meditation could lead to mystical and scientific insights, and that, as a result of it, he had come to believe in a creator.[45]

[Anonymous No.17051051]

>>17048789
Can't wait until muzzies blow these the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.17051059]

>>17048867
>he says speaking fucking English

[Anonymous No.17051124]

>>17051051
the only thing they'll be blowing is Xi's dick

[Anonymous No.17051195]

>>17049209
>”Śaṅkarācārya is undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the world and a realised saint. He is gifted with extra-ordinary intelligence, a deeply penetrating mind, critical insight, logical reasoning, philosophical analysis, religious purity, sublimity of renunciation and profound spirituality. His literary excellence makes him shine as a writer of exemplary Sanskrit prose and soul-inspiring philosophico-religious verses.
- Chandradhar Sharma

https://iep.utm.edu/adv-veda/

[Anonymous No.17051329]

>>17048867
utter plebeianism

[Anonymous No.17051742]

>>17050897
Shankara was not against statues, he was just against believing Brahman to be literally depicted by them. In some of his works he mentions using statues as aids to meditation or visualization. The Smarta tradition which is supposed to have been started or consolidated by him utilizes the worship of 5 deities in Panchayatana which are used as symbols of Brahman who is formless

[Anonymous No.17051746]

>>17048851
I see you're new

[Anonymous No.17051753]

>>17048266
DIS NIGGA TEACHIN SUTRAS

[Anonymous No.17051844]

Whats the best translation of the Bhagavad? Eawaran? Sir Edwin Arnold?

[Anonymous No.17051868]

>>17051844
my translation

[Anonymous No.17051870]

>>17051844
Easwaran is good for people who are new to reading Hindu philosophy/scripture

[Anonymous No.17051909]

>>17051870
I've read plenty of Classical and Western stuff but never Hindu so ill probably go with that.

[Anonymous No.17052077]

>>17051870
>>17051909
After doing some research it seems that Easwarans version, while the most accessible, liberalizes a lot of small details and makes many passages more pluralistic. Is there a version thats still very accessible that doesn't do this?

[Anonymous No.17052102]

>>17051844
>>17051870
>>17052077
I’ve been reading this version. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.17052170]

>>17052102
Its seems like this is a more literal translation but still very good. Im either looking at this one or Prabhavanandas, not sure which to go with.

[Anonymous No.17052394]

>>17049362
where do i start with real vedanta to avoid crypto-buddhist advaita? brahma sutras? bhaskara?

[Anonymous No.17052686]

>>17051742
>Panchayatana
>ever making Sankara an icon of Saguna Brahman
Literally fanservice to Bhakti retards.

[Anonymous No.17052698]

>>17052394
Ramanuja's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita and Brahma Sutras

[Anonymous No.17052793]

>>17051746
No, I know Shankara has been of interest here for a while. It was just strange to see /lit/ take interest in a guy who my crystal collecting teacher liked.

[Anonymous No.17052968]

>>17048789
Buddhists must have a big attachment to Buddha and Buddhism. Whose desire was it to make such a big statue?

[Anonymous No.17052976]

>>17052793
/lit/ has always been interested in oriental philosophy but unfortunately 98% of the shankara posts here are one guy spamming quotes from Indian blogs about how based he is. We haven't had a real thread on him in years because of it. Any time the guy gets provoked into real conversation he becomes aggressive or starts pasting walls of text from blogs or google books.

[Anonymous No.17053006]

>>17052968
Big statues are how you achieve no longer desiring to no longer desire. The statue sucks up all of the desire, like a big sponge.

>>17052976
Other anons have said it before, and I'll say it again: Guenonfag has done more damage to Hindu philosophy than a thousand Buddhists ever could.

[Anonymous No.17053021]

>>17052976
> but unfortunately 98% of the shankara posts here are one guy spamming quotes from Indian blogs about how based he is.
About half the threads on Vedanta/Advaita are actually started by people trying to repost from critiques of it from elsewhere, and then people who have actually read Shankara come in and respond to refute those attacks

>We haven't had a real thread on him in years because of it.
Not true

>Any time the guy gets provoked into real conversation he becomes aggressive or starts pasting walls of text from blogs or google books.
Pointing out the logical contradictions in Buddhism etc is not being aggressive anon

[Anonymous No.17053299]

>>17053006
>Guenonfag has done more damage to Hindu philosophy than a thousand Buddhists ever could.
Any opinions on the theory he's actually a buddhist who wants to make Hindus look like insane faggots?

>>17053021
Shouldn't you be replying "based" to your own naked pictures again? Or do you only have a deal to post from the McDonalds wifi if you don't post any naked pics

[Anonymous No.17053501]

>>17053299
>Any opinions on the theory he's actually a buddhist who wants to make Hindus look like insane faggots?
I doubt it. But then, I'd also think you were merely jesting if you told me that some Dutch schizo spent over a year spamming a Bhutanese spear-fishing IRC channel's literature board with his personal bizarre synthesis of an obscure French orientalist, Gnosticism, and a minor Hindu mystic.

The fact that he'll gladly scream his garbage into the void (as this thread demonstrates) makes me think it's just mental illness rather than an agenda. If he were trying and make Buddhism look good, you'd think he'd be trying to do so in a way that responding to his false-flag attacks on Buddhism would point out positive aspects of Buddhism that people on /lit/ want, like leading into meditation and the like, or about how the Buddha is a cool Aryan warrior chad or whatever. But it isn't, it's always over obscure points of doctrine, like Parininirvana or Dzogchen shit, or namedropping bizarre lists of hyper-obscure pajeet thinkers. If he wanted to make Buddhism look good, one would think he'd actually put forth Advaita Vedanta as an opponent, but he just... doesn't. He takes basic bitch materialist ideas and then retreads to Vedanta to buttress them.

[Anonymous No.17053730]

>>17053501
>Buddha is a cool Aryan warrior chad or whatever.
nah

[Anonymous No.17053754]

>>17053730
didn't you make most or all of these? are you a waifufag, but for shankara? could this finally explain guenonfag? shankara is simply his waifu

[Anonymous No.17053819]

>>17050281
They cannot accept it because it is a source of cognitive dissonance for them

[Anonymous No.17053852]

>>17052686
>>ever making Sankara an icon of Saguna Brahman
It's not implied in the article that they are doing this with the statue, this new statue is most likely just as a sign of respect like the other large statues in India of other theologians and famous politicians

[Anonymous No.17054245]

>>17048624
to be announced

[Anonymous No.17054591]

>>17050852
>The system is circular. It does not explain how [differentiation is] established to start with.
it is interesting that someone had discovered that electromagnetic forces help for a creatures shape to be. you can disrupt this mechanism, things like planarian will become deformed if it is disrupted. still, how is differentiation established? this discovery might help support Rupert's morphic resonance idea. abiogenesis had to happen some way. we should be able to discover some kind of information data-stream that helps influence the shaping of these organisms, or some kind of connection if there are causes and effects that are beyond what we currently consider to be real. I have no clue how much people have looked into these things. what if colliding particles at high speeds rips open this information universe where morphic resonance reside and forces it to spew out parts of its information. I can only hope this information universe is durable enough that it can only be affected by spilling out the information without it being destroyed or damaged. I think this would be the case if this universe is like some kind of medium that is imprinted upon by this "information and memory universe". if things like black holes could affect it then it seems that our universe would easily unravel by now.