/lit/ thread text recommendations like Atma Bodha

[Anonymous No.20606867]

From the moment in which the superimpositions are removed the truthknower enters
immediately into that which permeates everywhere, as water in water, air in air, fire in fire.

The fulfillment after which there is nothing to desire, the happiness beyond which there is no
greater happiness, the understanding above which there is no higher understanding, may one
know that is Brahman!

The object of vision, beyond which no further vision can be desired, the being in union with
which no further birth is possible, the knowledge beyond which one needs no further knowledge,
may one know that is Brahman!

That which fills all superior, intermediate, and inferior worlds, being, awareness, bliss, one
without a second, infinite, eternal, may one know that is Brahman!

That which is designated in the Vedantic texts as the timeless being which renders illusory
all which is not Him, that permanent bliss, may one know that is Brahman!

Admitted to a portion of the bliss of that being which is eternal happiness, Brahma and the
other gods attain a partial happiness.

All things rest in Brahman and He moves all things; He is universally diffused through
everything, like butter in the mass of milk.

That which is neither small nor large, neither short nor long, neither subject to birth nor
death, that which is without form, without qualities, without color, without name, may one know
that is Brahman!

That by the splendor of which the sun and the stars shine while not being illuminated by
them, that which illuminates all things, may one know that is Brahman!

Penetrating everywhere within and without, illuminating the whole universe, Brahman shines
from afar like a globe of iron rendered incandescent by a flame.

Brahman is not of this world; nothing in reality is, but Him. If anything appears to be other
than Him, it is but a vain show, like a mirage in the desert.

All that is seen, all that is heard, is Brahman. Through understanding this, Brahman is
contemplated as the real, aware, nondual being.

The eye of knowledge contemplates the being which is life, intelligence, and all-pervading
happiness; but the eye of ignorance cannot contemplate That, just as a person who is blind
cannot perceive the shining sun.

The mind, enlightened by sacred tradition and other means, warmed by the fire of
knowledge, and freed from all impurities, becomes brilliant as gold purified by fire.

When Atman, the sun of understanding, rises in the space of the heart, it disperses
darkness; permeating all and sustaining all, it shines, and all is light.

He who undertakes the pilgrimage towards his own self, the unique Atman, going
everywhere without regard to the state of the sky, the country, or the weather, indifferent to heat
and cold, and acquiring eternal happiness; free from impurity, such a one becomes all-knowing,
all-pervading and immortal.

- Śaṅkarācārya, Atma-Bodha

[Anonymous No.20607236]

>>20606867
Stupid frogposter.

[Anonymous No.20608040]

>>20606867
> /lit/ thread text recommendations like Atma Bodha

Vivekachudamani
https://gita-society.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/vivekachudamani.pdf

Ashtavakra Gita
https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

Uttara Gita
https://spiritual-minds.com/easternrelgions/Gita/UttaraGita/Uttara-Gita.pdf

Avadhuta Gita
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Song-of-the-Avadhut-by-Dattatreya.pdf

Advaita Bodha Deepika
https://selfdefinition.org/ramana/Advaita-Bodha-Deepika.pdf

Kaivalya Navaneeta
http://ramana-maharshi.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/7/2/24723372/kaivalya_navaneeta_-_cream_of_liberation.pdf

Drg-Drsya-Viveka
https://vivekananda.net/PDFBooks/Others/DrgDrsyaViveka1931.pdf

Vedantasara
https://estudantedavedanta.net/Vedantasara-Nikhilananda.pdf

Tripura Rahasya
https://www.beezone.com/Ramana/tripura%20rahasya.pdf

Ellam Ondre
https://tomdas.com/2020/04/05/ellam-ondre-a-text-recommended-by-sri-ramana-maharshi/amp/

Dasbodh
https://vedantastudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/76-Dasbodh.pdf

Other similar texts with no online pdf links available:
Nome’s complete translation of the Ribhu Gita
Venkatesananda’s longer (700+ page) translation of the Yoga Vasistha

Texts from other philosophies/religions which talk about highly similar teachings:
Longchenpa - The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena
Chinul - Collected Works

[Anonymous No.20608359]

>>20608040
YOU HAD ONE JOB! AND YOU FORGOT THE SORUPA SARAM! HOW CAN YOU FORGET SORUPA SARAM?! GO MEDITATE ON ONE FOOT FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS!

[Anonymous No.20608788]

>>20608359
I gotchu senpai

Sorupa Saram
https://www.davidgodman.org/tamilt/Sorupa_Saram_new.pdf

[Anonymous No.20609080]

>>20606867
>From the moment in which the superimpositions are removed the truthknower enters
>immediately into that which permeates everywhere
question: if you realising that maya is an illusion let you realise the existence of brahma, how do you know, that brahma is actually real and not another form of illusion?

[Anonymous No.20609390]

>>20609080
>if you realising that maya is an illusion let you realise the existence of brahma, how do you know, that brahma is actually real and not another form of illusion?
Because Brahman is our consciousness, and our consciousness cannot be an illusion because illusions are not self aware like we/consciousness is. Something with no reality to it would not and could not produce or generate sentience.

[Anonymous No.20609543]

>>20609390
>Because Brahman is our consciousness, and our consciousness cannot be an illusion
how can our particular consciousness also be a general thing? i mean, i'm aware of my consciousness and you're aware of your consciousness, but you're not aware of my consciousness the way i'm aware of my consciousness, you're not self aware of my consciousness, you're only self aware of your own awareness, so in that sense there must be as many consciousness as living beings in the universe

[Anonymous No.20609586]

>>20606867
That was beautiful, OP, thank you.

[Anonymous No.20609829]

>>20608040
In what ways are these texts similar? Link spamming is not hard ...

[Anonymous No.20609896]

>>20609543
>how can our particular consciousness also be a general thing?
Because what seems to be your particular consciousness is just the general universal consciousness itself appearing here right now in association with a specific set of phenomena, and this is also true of the so-called ‘particular consciousnesses’ of everything that’s sentient in any/all universes; just like the same omnipresent space fills all caves, pots, houses and bowls and this lets us speak of a limited and enclosed area of space in an incidental sense even though the space inside the bowl is the same undivided universal space in actuality and it still continues uninterruptedly as unlimited space even in the same spot where the material substance of the pot is that was apparently limiting space but not doing so in actuality.

>i mean, i'm aware of my consciousness and you're aware of your consciousness, but you're not aware of my consciousness the way i'm aware of my consciousness
What do you mean when you say “you're not aware of my consciousness the way i'm aware of my consciousness”
Do you mean that we are not aware of your thoughts, of your emotions, of your bodily sensations, of your lived experience in the waking world? That may be true, but none of those are your consciousness, they are all known content that is revealed to your consciousness, who is the self-evident and effortlessly-present knower of all content.

How does consciousness, the knower, actually know itself? As a self-disclosing presence that lacks any parts, internal complexity or distinguishing features.

Does this differ at all between your consciousness and my own consciousness? No it doesn’t, both know or disclose their own presence to themselves as exactly this same partless united knower who is immediately and uninterruptedly self-evident while at the same time not having any distinguishing features or parts that be grasped like the features of objects can.

How can you reliably know that your consciousness, the knower, is in reality a different one from my own? You can’t, because that can only be fallibly inferred on the basis of things being present that are *not consciousness*, but absent these factors being present there would be no different features left as a basis to infer any difference between your consciousness and mine, like trying to find two different spaces amidst the expanse of unlimited space, on the basis of different hollow pots enclosing space being present.

[Anonymous No.20609979]

>>20609829
>In what ways are these texts similar?

Śaṅkarācārya, whom OP posted some quotes from, is the central philosopher of classical Advaita. With the exception of the Uttara Gita, all those texts aside from the last two are either representative of classical Advaita Vedanta. or texts that seem to be a combination of Advaita with things like Shaktism, Shaivism etc. The Uttara-Gita is a part of the Mahabharata where Krishna recaps the lessons of the Bhagavad-Gita to Arjuna after he forgot some of them. Some Hindus would dispute the claim that the Mahabharata or any of its sections teaches Advaita since multiple schools of Hinduism would claim that the Mahabharata and its various sections like Bhagavad-Gita, Anu-Gita, Uttara-Gita etc actually agree with their sects respective version of Hindu and metaphysics; but the text of the Uttara-Gita seems very similar to Advaita to me so I included it anyway. The last two texts are by two Buddhist thinkers but they are two thinkers who are so late in time and seemingly so permeated by Shaivist/Taoist etc influence that they talk about consciousness and spirituality in ways that much closer resembles Upanishadic texts and Advaita writings than it resembles original Buddhist texts like the Pali Canon.