I dislike this!! 1. bhakti yoga is more than loving hearing about God, its loving God so much you want to be close to God. 2. a perfect love of God can only be cultivated by knowing the Brahman within, which is the Atman. samadhi is only without object because it is the unitive state, and all is Brahman! Brahman is the object and the subject, and both are one! 3. for bhkatas, wanting to be liberated is an expression of wanting to be closer to God. it is thus not selfish. if they want to BE God, it is selfish and demoniacal. if they want Union with God for Gods sake without a hint of selfness, it is not selfish. 4. I would argue that since the mind proceeds from ahamkara (the ego), desiring to be lost in sweet thoughts of God can actually be selfish.

how can the bliss of loving God be greater than the bliss of Gods own ananda? aren't they both infinite beyond all numbering, for Gods love is infinite and to know the atman is to have Gods own heart? (or the heart of a Buddha) makes me think these bhaktas werent fully enlightened... questions...

I do however agree that lack of concern with liberation is incredibly noble!

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not a fan of this guy lemme tell ya. not just his dualism and his lack of universalism but his view on grace as being necessarily won through various merits. his claiming to be an avatar despite not ever being enlightened. and the "miracles he performed" are all super weird!

he said it again. fuckin huxley

@eris @Ree

more mahayana propaganda

yes.... hahahaha... yes!

huxley is pissing me off with this whole chapter on egregores. God is immanent in all His creation! it seems he does not truly understand the Bhagavad Gita which he quotes from in calling all worship except of God within "idolatry". all worship is of Krishna... and all powers are from Him, so who cares about egregores and what counts as magick? plus some things are genuinely revealed by God and thus closer to Him and thus very sacred... smdh

I really fucking hate how huxley keeps calling it the "cosmic intelligence test"

@prettygood Luther sucks!!!

sad!

Calvin had this guy burned at the stake for his religious views btw

fuck man

I love this anecdote

bro is talking about egregores

LUTHER SUCKS!!

I get Eckhart's God vs Godhead now. basically God as involved with his creation and the transcendent Brahman

okay here huxley is based, certainly for his time