@Hyperhidrosis believing in iranian conspiracy theories about the saudis is just another form of ignorance

@Hyperhidrosis cringe

lots of vaishnavas admit that Lord Shiva is Vishnu and Shiva's abode is equal to Vishnu's abode, or otherwise they admit Shiva is eternal like Bhagavan. but this author calls Shiva a demigod akin to Brahma. typical sectarianism.

@Hyperhidrosis "saudi jews" literally what are you talking about, jews were expelled from saudi arabia centuries ago.

@Hyperhidrosis scholars generally agree about the q source being a reliable enough indicator of what Christ actually said based on only a couple decades of oral tradition. most importantly, the words of Jesus in at least the synoptic gospels SOUND internally coherent, and the gospels as a whole are written in a much more realistic way than the puranas and the epics, which are filled with flourishes like "everyone at the same time said this long-winded treatise on vedanta" and "thundering musical instruments played as celestial couples adorned in beautiful clothes flew around in their sky vehicles and flowers from their hair fell to the ground". when you read "canon" accounts of krishna and read canon accounts of jesus, you see a vast difference, and i frankly envy it.

@Hyperhidrosis not very long, only a couple generations max. compare that to krishna which has like a 4500 year gap if you believe the official timeline.

i greatly wish there were an account of Krishna's life as historically reliable as the gospels which very clearly convey Jesus's actual teachings and many of His deeds.

honestly, fuck this guy. you aren't going to win anyone to krishna consciousness by being an asshole.

i fucking hate the antiquated notion that the male contributes the seed of the new organism and the female germinates it in her womb. the female both contributes an equal amount of genetic material AND gestates the fetus. no one can deny she has vastly more of a share in reproduction, which for a man is wholly pleasurable and a woman is mostly quite painful and arduous.

this book just gets more and more awful

so basically, even if you believe that Shiva is a great demigod and not a form of the Supreme Lord, it is foolish to say he lives on this and that mountain, though not foolish to say such a place is holy because of its association with Him.

i've spoken about my belief on types of higher planes before here https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B6oYRxg1yXRRwJ8zGy (i should rehash my belief about lower planes because i've lost that post) but on the same subject the buddhists are correct that these worlds can be divided into a hierarchy of three with pleasurably sensuous worlds of form at the bottom, then sense-desire-less worlds of form, then arupa worlds where non-liberated saints and the highest devas are.

note: i believe His body is pure sattva guna, although obviously to monists, sattva guna is Brahman too

its a bit funny how Krishna is considered to be simultaneously less and more human than Jesus. while his body and mind are pure Brahman, and he is not a hypostasis, His activities are much more human.

its silly to say powerful jinn are real but not the celestials/devas.

its a pet peeve of mine when were told about people's past lives and they deliberately have the same sex and very similar role as they used to. "in your past life you were married to eachother just as you are now, and just as you are now you are the husband and she is the wife." why no gender swap? its silly to say so incessantly that the body is not the self and then to treat the soul as gendered in this way.

what i was seeking from this book is a better more beautiful less egregious (in places) srimad bhagavatam, but instead i got a very plain much less moving retelling with added dogma from his sampradaya that often veers into polemics and despite being modern is unabashedly casteist and sexist (like the SB!). the illustrations are quite lackluster and some of it departs from the text of the purana, no doubt influenced by whatever his guru said about the "true meaning" or "what actually happened".

obviously, the only way to return to God is through Gods grace. yoga is the greatest means by which grace is received. it is actually infinite grace, because only infinite karma could merit obtaining infinite bliss and infinite beatitude.

vaisnavas be like "we can never become God through any discipline, but we can be Gods mother and father through dharmic conduct and austerities".



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another hot take on vedanta, this one should be obvious. i hate when devas/celestials are called rulers of the senses. while powerful beings can influence the senses, and have higher knowledge about what we experience, only Vishnu is enshrined within the heart and experiences all that we do. the only Lord of the senses is Hrishikesha.