"I once visited the MUSEUM. There was a display of fossils: living animals had turned into stone. Just look at the power of association! Imagine what would happen if you constantly kept the company of the holy." - Ramakrishnahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna#Teachings
>>18475121I love Ramakrishna. I was turned off by him for many years because superficially he sounded like a nutjob, then I started learning about Vedanta and listening to a ton of Sarvapriyananda's lectures the past few years, and read a bunch of Swami Vivekananda and learned much more about him. I have a question, is it true that Thoreau and Emerson were heavily influenced by Vedanta, and was it true that Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla attended many of Swami Vivekananda's lectures? I didn't expect Hinduism to have influenced American thought so extensively.
>>18475145>>18475121Stupid poop worshipers
>>18475157you worship jews.
>>18475145>was it true that Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla attended many of Swami Vivekananda's lectures?yes, the 1920s was one of those periodic times when Americans became fascinated with the Orient for several years (and then forgot about it.)>At Khandwa in 1892 he heard about the Parliament of Religions that was to be held the following year in Chicago, and made up his mind to go there and plead India’s cause in the West. Patronized by the Maharajah of Khetri, he embarked at Bombay and started out on an astonishing journey. His thundering success there electrified the entire Western world and brought India, so to speak, into the consciousness of most thoughtful Westerners – no longer the India of the theosophists (who disliked him) nor the cold, unrepresentative India of the Brāhma-Samāj (whose head, Pratāp Chandar Mozoomdār, also attended the meeting), but the living, dynamic India that was at last awakening. In the words of the New York Herald, Vivekānanda was ‘Undoubtedly the greatest figure in the Parliament of Religions. After hearing him we feel how foolish it is to send [Christian] missionaries to this most learned nation.’a must read:https://annas-archive.gl/md5/4be324e5586437795a8105b13e597bb3
>>18475157Let us review the meaning of "forgive," for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something that entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In such a view, forgiveness must be seen as mere eccentric folly, and this course appear to rest salvation on a whim.This twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily corrected, when you can accept the fact that pardon is not asked for what is true. It must be limited to what is false. It is irrelevant to everything except illusions. Truth is God's creation, and to pardon that is meaningless. All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love. Does this need pardon? How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign? (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/539#1:1-2:7 | W-134.1:1-2:7)
>>18475297The Soul of India argues that India's civilization is rooted in a fundamentally spiritual vision of reality, one that seeks liberation through inner realization rather than mastery of the external world. Amaury de Riencourt contrasts India's cyclical, contemplative, metaphysical orientation with the West's linear, activist, and material focus, tracing how Hinduism, Buddhism, caste, yoga, renunciation, and concepts like karma and maya shaped Indian culture across millennia. He presents India not as stagnant or irrational, but as pursuing a different civilizational aim: the discovery of consciousness and transcendence. At the same time, he examines the tensions this spiritual emphasis created in politics, science, social hierarchy, and modernization, especially under colonialism and the encounter with Western industrial values.
