What books should I read on Hinduism and astrology before starting with Evola?
I'm not sure.
>>24692420Okay, Not Sure
avoid evola like the plague
Idk anything about the superfascist or astrology, but the bhagavad gita is the closest thing to a summary of the hindu religions, maybe the principal upanishads too ig if you have extra time. Anything beyond that (including commentaries) will be highly sectarian
>>24692419If you're completely new, "The Hindus" by Wendy Doniger is an excellent review of Hinduism from an external perspective which makes it somewhat easier to understand. For primary sources, I would have to agree with the Bhagavad Gita, but with some reservations stated below. Make sure to do some background research beforehand>>24692492>bhagavad gita is the closest thing to a summary of the hindu religionsNot really, it represents the highest and most sublime state of Hindu thought but you need to know at least some basic religious context of the era in which it was written and at least a cursory understanding of the Kurukshetra War. It specifically critiques or at least is critical of many common religious practices during the Vedic era and incorporates much philosophical terminology. Learning about the various Hindu sects is another matter, but it does bring you closest to the "essence" of Hinduism
>>24692529>The Hindus" by Wendy Doniger is an excellent review of Hinduism from an external perspective which makes it somewhat easier to understand.That's one way to not understand anything about hinduism
>>24692537Yes it's pulpy and lacks meaningful conceptual understanding, I'm just recommending it so he can learn necessary terminology
>>24692552It's a leftist feminist reading that tries to deconstruct the established and reveal voices of the less powerful within the text whose voices are lost and unrecorded. Definitely not recommended as an intro work
>>24692419Isn't Hinduism that religion where they worship poop and rats and stuff?
>>24692555Ideology can be ignored, I found the sources interesting enough and it covers enough of the basics. Didn't want to recommend the Cambridge Introduction to Hinduism or something the like as it would be too boring>>24692556Quintessential /lit/ poster, proud of not reading
>>24692556Hinduism is the primordial Aryan faith. I suggest you read BAP
>>24692419skip Evola, he’s a snoozefest, read Guenon (pbuh), and Shankara (pbuh)
>>24692705What is BAP? Also, I believe in Jesus
>>24692734>What is BAPlol absolute state of /lit/
>>24692721Ok, what the fuck is this Guenon meme? The Crisis of the Modern World is like a hundred pages of an opinion that can be said in one paragraph
>>24692745>Ok, what the fuck is this Guenon meme?Rene Guenon is the most correct, smartest and most important person of the twentieth century. There was no smarter, deeper, clearer, absolute Guenon and probably could not be. It is no coincidence that the French traditionalist René Allé in one collection dedicated to R. Guenon compared Guenon with Marx. It would seem that there are completely different, opposite figures. Guenon is a conservative hyper-traditionalist. Marx is a revolutionary innovator, a radical overthrower of traditions. But Rene Halle rightly guessed the revolutionary message of each of Guenon's statements, the extreme, cruel noncomformity of his position, which turns everything and everything upside down, the radical nature of his thought.The fact is that René Guenon is the only author, the only thinker of the twentieth century, and maybe many, many centuries before that, who not only identified and confronted with each other secondary language paradigms, but also put into question the very essence of language. The language of Marxism was methodologically very interesting, subtly reducing the historical existence of mankind to a clear and convincing formula for confronting labor and capital. Being a great paradigmatic success, Marxism was so popular and won the minds of the best intellectuals of the twentieth century. But R. Guenon is an even more fundamental generalization, an even more radical removal of masks, an even broader worldview contestation, putting everything into question.- Aleksandr DuginGuénon undermined and then; with uncompromising intellectual rigour, demolished all the assumptions taken for granted by modern man, that is to say Western or westernised man. Many others had been critical of the direction taken by European civilization since the so-called 'Renaissance', but none had dared to be as radical as he was or to re-assert with such force the principles and values which Western culture had consigned to the rubbish tip of history. His theme was the 'primordial tradition' or Sofia perennis, expressed-so he maintained-both in ancient mythologies and in the metaphysical doctrine at the root of the great religions. The language of this Tradition was the language of symbolism, and he had no equal in his interpretation of this symbolism. Moreover he turned the idea of human progress upside down, replacing it with the belief almost universal before the modern age, that humanity declines in spiritual excellence with the passage of time and that we are now in the Dark Age which precedes the End, an age in which all the possibilities rejected by earlier cultures have been spewed out into the world, quantity replaces quality and decadence approaches its final limit. No one who read him and understood him could ever be quite the same again.- Gai Eaton
>>24692734the JIDF millennial
>>24692419Read about Hinduism and skip Evola
>>24692753So he's not a meme?
>>24692753Wow, Dugin? What’s next, Peterson praising him?
>>24692809>What’s next, Peterson praising him?Rene Guénon, though not a thinker whose ideas align seamlessly with my own, embodies a rare intellectual rigor and depth that merits the utmost respect, especially when viewed from the lens of intellectual courage. His works, which have been often misrepresented or misunderstood by the modern mind, challenge us to confront the inadequacies and inconsistencies of our contemporary worldview. Guénon’s exploration of metaphysics, spirituality, and the decline of traditional societies, while distinct from my own philosophical stance, presents an unwavering commitment to the transcendent and the eternal, something that is increasingly lost in our post-modern society.What stands out most about Guénon is his capacity to grasp the deepest layers of intellectual tradition—often, without becoming entangled in the trivialities and distractions that modern intellectuals so frequently chase after. His critique of modernity, with its secular, materialistic, and reductionist tendencies, is, I believe, one of the most insightful examinations of the spiritual malaise of the 20th century. Guénon’s work is not merely an academic exercise; it is a call to reorient the individual’s sense of meaning toward something greater than the immediate, the transient, or the purely rational.Despite our differences—particularly on the nature of metaphysics—one cannot help but admire Guénon’s clarity of vision. He was not swayed by the popular intellectual currents of his time, nor did he retreat into obscure dogmatism. His rigorous examination of the ancient wisdom traditions of East and West reveals a mind capable of synthesizing the spiritual and intellectual heritage of humanity in a way few have ever managed. His insistence on transcendent truth, rooted in an understanding of the sacred and the metaphysical, is a crucial corrective to the fragmentation of thought that characterizes so much of contemporary philosophy and theology.- Jordan Peterson
>>24692485You lost
