What is some must read Āryan literature for the spiritually capable man in the present period of kāli yuga?"Familiar" with the Bhagavadgīta and the pāli suttas btw, but all that means, despite significant attempt, is "have tried to understand". What do anons think?
>>25231197Good morning saar. Here is a chart of Hindu philosophical writings. If I had to pick one “must read” is would be the Ashtavakra Gitahttps://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html
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>>25231197Abhnabagupta's Tantraloka
Saar for true aryan I suggest Durgasoft and specially AI Video Mastery Create Viral Reels & Youtube Shorts by Mr. Durga Sir for which I am passionate about.
>>25231212>stemniggerThis is literature board, your kind are not welcome here >>>/g/
>>25231205That first chart is cool but it's unnecessarily comprehensive.OP, start with the Gita. It's the most famous one for a reason. I recommend JAB van Buitenen's translation. Following that, if you want to get a feel for the context of the whole of the religious complex, read Wendy Doniger's selected Vedic hymns. These are the original holy scriptures most subsequent literature claims to rest on. Some people say Doniger went too far in her redaction of the hymns but it's a decent overview of the (mostly late portions of the) Rigveda. After that you can safely skip the middle Vedic period (unless you really like reading about brick altar construction) and go straight to the 13 major upanishads. In roughly chronological order:>Brihadaranyaka/Chandogya (earliest, composed ~800 BC, ideas far older)>Aitareya/Taittiriya/Kaushitaki (early, composed ~700-600 BC, ideas older)>Isha/Kena/Katha/Shvetashvatara (middle, composed ~600-500 BC, some ideas older)>*Jainism and Buddhism appear*>Prashna/Mandukya/Maitrayaniya/Mundaka (late, composed 500-300 BC, ideas more recent and even innovative)Read them in one translation, and read them again in another, and read them with some commentary later on. As Schopenhauer said, the Upanishads are "the most profitable and elevating reading which ... is possible in the world."Then you get into the sutra genre. I recommend skipping four of the six canonical schools and turning to the Yoga Sutras - specifically the edition by Edwin F. Bryant where he's concisely summarized all of the traditional commentaries (highly regarded texts in their own right) for each sutra of the book. After that read the Gita again, but this time with Abhinavagupta's commentary. Afterwards read it a third time with Shankara's commentary, and then you're ready for the Brahma Sutras, also with his commentary. That should give you a good overview of the basis of Hindu theology and philosophy.
>>25231197If you want to veer off the usual beaten path(s) I recommend looking into the "inner light and sound tradition" (the actual core lore, not the cults piggybacking off of same)
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Good thread.
>>25231197I don't think the Aryans wrote anything, as none of them were literate.
>>25232201Is anything else in the Mahābhārata worth reading? van Buitenen seems to have translated a lot of it
>>25233335and that's a good thing because writing is literally for niggers
>>25231197Why do you want to learn ancient ooga booga hymns from India?
>>25233444What timeless truths is there to learn from the modern era?
Great recs, thank you everyone.>>25232201Thank you! I've been going through Buitenen's text on the BG on your recommendation and this is like the only serious work on the text I've encountered. I'll follow your recs closely. Much appreciated anon.
Why is it that the Hindus who are so obsessed with the soul seem the most soulless? literally 0 stoicism, 100% gay painting, 0 reason to remember the name. The bhagvad gita is at best 800~900 years old.
>>25234295Stoicism is the most soulless thing
>>25232201Reading any classical Brahma Sutra commentary like Shankara’s or Ramanuja’s without reading first either multiple Upanishad commentaries by the same author or a work by them setting forth their metaphysics and hermeneutics (like Ramanuja’s Vedartha Sangraha) is a bad idea IMO. In order to be able to closely follow along their Brahma Sutra commentary and not get confused/lost it’s important to not just have some familiarity with the Upanishads but to already know how that author’s tradition interprets their metaphysics and key sections of them. To a large extent both Shankara’s & Ramanuja’s bhashyas on the Brahma Sutra presuppose their metaphysics already elaborated in other works and they dont give you a systematic introduction and run-down to it at the start of their bhashyas on that text.
>>25234310A metrosexual sitting on some lotuses and "encompassing everything broo" is soulful?
>>25234371Because Hinduism is so varied there is every kind of art in Hinduism corresponding to every type of personality and religious attitude, from love-filled and peaceful scenes of humainoid gods to frighting, warlike, and austere monkish figures to apophatic and non-anthropomorphic conceptions. All this simply reflects the different dimensions of the human personality and its ranges, so it's kinda pointless to seethe about lovey-dovey Hindu religious paintings at this reason. People who are sentimental (women, men of female inclination, senior citizens) are draw to that kind of imagery in practically every culture, era and religion, it's not just a Hindu thing. You see the same kind of sappy artwork in Abrahamic religions and also in popular lay art depicting Buddha in Buddhist countries as an objection of adoration.
>>25231197I NEED to fuck the alluring subcontinental tranny in that pic
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