@nerthos @lain he was sinless. as an incarnation of God he was more spotless than the buddha who only became sinless. but I just read multiple translations of john 2 and he doesnt sound cruel to her like he does in the KJV imo. I guess calling her "woman" just sounds cruel in english. but apparently Catholic interpretation uses that as proof she is the new eve, and the miracle at cana is her intercession? thats not unreasonable.

@nerthos @lain he was wholly man in the sense of he suffered like one not in the sense of he was cruel

@lain so true

@lain I dont like how jesus speaks to mary tbh I dont think its accurate

@s8n yeah thats not why you have that in your bio. thats too convoluted. but I'm done with this convo

@s8n then why do you boast that "the virgin mary was 13" etc.

sridharas gloss has monism in it! he regards yoga as union with the supreme self, not just with the soul. I shouldve expected this, he is both a vaishnavite approved by chaitanya and a fan of shankara.

@s8n jesus would think youre evil. hatred is evil and so is lolicon. remove the beam from your eye before casting judgement on me. my rebellion against God will end, will yours?

@s8n were both evil, you have no bragging rights

@HatkeshiatorTND nah

@lizzie hehe thanky! I think I will but it will take me ages lol, I'm not a fast reader and the text is abstruse I believe

bout to read a text with 29000 verses

my other qualm with sridhara is he references a lot of scripture that isnt scripture, like the gautama dharmasutra

wish I were fit to do literally any form of yoga but I am totally mired in tamas

we are both Gods part, as part of His body the universe (Virat), and Gods whole in fullness, as our soul (Atman) is Him (Brahman). out of the full, the plenum, the infinite, the whole, comes the full, the plenum, the infinite, the whole. and when this fullness merges into that fullness, all that remains is fullness.

but God doesnt do such a thing because as I said his "desire" to be normal is served by the countless jivas of which he is their soul. and, being in actuality free from desire and wholly self-fulfilled, he incarnates for the good of others (and therefore always acts supernormal, establishing religion and thus making himself known.)

honestly the idea of an incarnation being just a normal person who doesnt much care about the establishment of religion and the destruction of evil, but is just God in human form who acts as the nicest person youve ever met as an expression of pure joy in lila and even sometimes is so engrossed in play acting (lila) that they lose themselves while still being Self-posessed, the idea that you could know such a person, is so enthralling to me. incarnations are kinda like that, krishna was known by most as a very talented and meritorious human and jesus hid his divine status in the synoptics. and in truth, all beings are manifestations of God and are Brahman, but have forgotten this (except yogis). I had a dream last night where God instructed me in controlling the senses and was just a mere highschoolteacher who was totally non-violent (didnt kill even an insect) and incredibly kind, and even "forgot" that she was omniscient and omnipotent while controlling my mind and senses for the purpose of demonstrating their difference from my Self. wild dream. much better than yesterdays dream where I was a druid (in the DND way) trying and failing to protect the world from robot aliens with robot alien tentacles that probed my brain and eventually made me into their slave. (I could feel the tentacles in my brain, though the brain has no inner sensation).

@indyradio never heard of it hmmm

https://annas-archive.li/md5/5ddd892084f5a43e4eb44005f87223a0


very much recommend this for those interested in delving further into the Gita after reading it once or twice (or more)