The 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.
ahh yahh he so sigma and trad sar chudai wataa bokep
>>25277009The Soul of India: scams, rape, and dung.A good documentary on the subject:https://odysee.com/@Anonymous:d16/Codex-Pajeet-3:d0
>>25277020>>25277067>I'm a Britshit. How could you tell?
>>25277009As an Indian this kind of spiritualism is drilled into your head very early on. A lot of our stories and myths deal with the futility of this world and it's mores, and it's drilled into your head.
The lengths these decayed post-aristocrats will go to.
>>25277009How does this compare to his book on China?
>>25277009Obviously true, Guenon, Evola and Schopenhauer would all agree as well
>>25277009That’s been on my reading list for a while. Good summary. > He presents India not as stagnant or irrational, but as pursuing a different civilizational aim: the discovery of consciousness and transcendenceBoth can be true at the same time. If civilization was a game India put almost all of its points into its religion stat and as a result it was weak in any regard lot associated with that. They went into religion so hard as cope about their lives being shit and to evade responsibility for archiving other things.
>>25277009I've had a 50s edition of the Coming Caesars by him for years now. Is it good and worth reading? His other works like this seem very good as well.
>>25277531I have a copy too and was considering reading it soon. depends on the page count.
>>25277216that comes off borderline Gnostic. so you guys mostly reject the material world?
