I stg I hadnt read this yet when I first criticized the AG for using the term shunya

@Lars I'm always surprised to hear my alarm. pretty sure its only on one day now cause I'm a NEET anyway

@kaia *takes a sprite*

"one cannot attain brahman through mantras and tantric rites" pranava and kundalini yoga though?? of course, both involve meditation, along with all paths to moksha.

the avadhuta gita is very big on "if everything is light, neither darkness nor light exist" style claims and its hard to wrap my brain around even though "without evil theres no good" is easy to understand.

I keep waking up from 6-8 all on my own this is so rad.

honestly the avadhuta gita is pretty peak as far as jnana yoga goes... however in kaliyug only truly special people are fit for liberation by its mantras alone

@risperdoll oh. that makes sense. huh.

actually its not that much never mind lol

void is mentioned a lot in the avadhuta gita... kinda shunya pilled. I hate when brahman is described as void without also describing it as full.

@anemone truly man-made horrors.

"Brahman is free of duality and non-duality" this one ive never heard before lol. its true though... and not just in a "the non-dual nirguna thing underlying all this manifoldness" way. it is One but one is alone and only, which implies a lack of others. it lacks nothing, and there is nothing else. and it is beyond something and nothing. it is pure Being, and transcends that too...

@anemone I pretend I do not see it

@technicallydifficult thats a lot of chasu. eggs should be jammier tbh. maybe its just the picture?

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to tangent a bit, I now think there is no brahma who is the creator in a trinity and the engineer of the universe anyway, God does the initial creation (creating the substance from Himself) as well as the secondary creation (engineering its evolution), though She lets other beings be tertiary creators in smaller ways, like devas, siddhas, and progenitors. God is also the primary and final destroyer and the primary sustainer, and its a religious relic that the creator god is regarded as not the same as the Supreme Lord but Shiva and Vishnu are both regarded as equivalent to the Supreme even in inter shaiva-vaishnava discourse. of course the puranic literature differentiates between a Parashiva or Mahavishnu, of which there is only One, and a lesser form of Shiva/Rudra or Vishnu, the latter of which there is one for each universe, and they are involved directly in destruction or sustenance respectively which is governed by the former Para/Maha form, but the best thing to do is to do away with the trinity entirely. the Lord is one without a second!

ive spoken before about my belief about hells, here's my belief on the heaven realms:
-there are some low heavens which are purely places of enjoyment without much sinning where good karma is exhausted. people are born with good inclinations, but not much more knowledge than on earth planes. they largely neglect yoga because they are distracted by sense indulgence and because they have no desire to stop suffering because they suffer little. when hindu texts say that its preferable to be born on earth than in heaven, they are referring to such.
-in higher heavens then these its common for at least some memories from past lives to be kept, starting with heavens like pitr-lokas where virtuous people are reuinited with past virtuous loved ones and virtuous relatives. they benefit from prayers for ancestors but are NOT dependent on them.
-there are some high heavens which are places of wisdom and virtue, pure lands home to sages and embodied buddhas. many celestial beings reside in such places and supernatural powers are very common.
-the very highest heavens are transcendent places where the greatest devas reside, where no one has a form (arupa heavens) and where the holy luminous presence of God is apparent to all. absolutely none return to lower planes, all are liberated and thus merge into Brahman by merely being born there and spending time there. the greatest saints are reborn here. and this is the nature of vaikuntha/the kingdom of heaven.

@Kagekokoro @lain

its even referenced in the upanishads smdh