@lizzie you: yoga is sacramental
me: the sacraments are bhakti yoga

don't listen to the edgelords, being nice is the coolest thing to be

ultimately it is the pro-death who will perish first, materially and spiritually.

@hopeful hmmmm yes. very adharmic.

also, this is what i mean when i say the account of the BP *reads* as being highly adulterated. this is like the puranic example of "and then the whole bus clapped" making an account immediately dubious of embellishment.

here's a good example. Him being astonished by the working of His own energy is no balm for this flaw in the text. it is remniscent of "taking refuge in yogamaya's powers", but of course, Brahman under the influence of maya (or yogamaya) is called a jiva.

@WoodshopHandman damn really

I havent addressed this issue with the book because its so frequent as to make me complacent, but there are so many times when Krishna is described in ways not befitting the Supreme Lord He is extolled as being. I'm not just talking about the obvious issue of His conduct, but rather about Him being described as "realizing" or "planning" or thinking/feeling certain childish things as a young child. basically what i seek is a treatment like the Adhyatma Ramayana, where for example Rama is explicitly described as searching for Sita despite always knowing where she is, playing at being a mortal. tulsidas's rendition is similar.

@Hyperhidrosis okay, so "saudis are jews" is baseless. which is what i said.

erm actually, evil demons have their powers by birth or by sorcery or by horrible austerities (the latter only grants boons that are curses), not by yogic achievement. if they had success in yoga, they would quickly no longer be evil.

@Hyperhidrosis if your assertion is that he was ethnically Jewish, this is very unlikely as i said, Jews were expelled from Saudi Arabia in the early islamic period.

@Hyperhidrosis mhm.

this guy says "impersonalists" (advaita vedantins) only gain beatitude by realizing identity with Gods "bodily effulgence". what nonsense. and he doesn't mean it in a sri vaishnava way where the souls are metaphorically the body of God, he seemingly means to say that impersonal Brahman is not an aspect of Para Brahman but is quite literally the radiance of Gods true human form. how silly.

@Hyperhidrosis hmmm yes. clearly a jew in disguise. very sneaky.

@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.