God is always alive, and is not a void, but His very self-knowledge doesnt necessitate comparison to vibration unless He seeks to know Himself as limited.

hopefully one day ill be smarter and much closer to God and able to formulate the "perfect" monist philosophy i seek so much

its a shame because theres much i love about trika

if trikas really do believe God is never at rest (static) even when the universe is dissolved and that God needs to vibrate in some way (subtly or grossly) to recognize Himself, i disagree. energy is moving consciousness, but consciousness isnt inherently energetic. but maybe reading source texts would persuade me otherwise. probably not, because "it moves--yet it moves not" is in the isha upanishad and i take the isha upanishad as absolutely divine. and God is called unmoving in other places in the upanishads as well.

anyway, i think i see where the trikas are coming from. if God knowing Himself is the universe and this process of self-understanding (called vimarsa) involves spanda inherently, then why wouldnt God knowing Himself involve spanda when the universe ceases? a trika would presumably say, consciousness inherently manifests as spanda, like shiva manifesting as shakti, but you know, oh well. it moves not! to me spanda is less an inherent vibration of self-knowledge, the heartbeat of consciousness, and more the deliberate creative vibration that vibrates and thus contracts consciousness, creating apparent limitations and diversity. to me it is mahamaya Herself.

a synthesis between monism of the vedantins and the tantrics would be very useful here! must i become such an acharya? right now my ideas are so half-baked... who knows... maybe God will talk to me more...

instead of diminishing God for the sake of theodicy the process theologians and passibilists (despite my former post im not a passibilist, im an absolute monist who believes the world is real) should just be universalists (and ideally, monists, but you cant have everything)

i have a tummy ache smdh. pooping this one out will be highly unpleasant.

somehow im a vaisnava and not a jew when the vaisnavas get this wrong and my ancestors gets this right

hmmmmm yes. why i like divine passability from a monist perspective, i do not like process theology.

can someone find my post on "i am that i am"

cant believe i let myself forget devanagari

white person spotted

list of bible translations to reject

dammit kagi i dont want a "reconstructed analysis" i want the real thing from real trika masters

bro kagi quick cited a goddamn instagram post, what the fuck

specifically i wanted to know about the om purnamadah verse (shanti mantra) because such a (really quite lovely) verse seems to strongly exhibit monism.

my butt problems are making me unhappy or at very least disquieted. right around when my pescatarianism began to contribute to bowel wellness i started to have these problems.

its cute how when i made a kagi account they asked if i know about them from x, y, z and one of the options was the fediverse

i am so sick of a literal proud pedophile (among his other unusual characteristics) being in my follow requests because no matter how many times i dismiss his request it wont go away (presumably because his instance is defederated or something)

@sun must've used kagis research llm because while im getting good answers with kagi quick they are not quite as good and assume i know much less

note so self asking kagi to explain what each school of vedanta thinks of a specific verse takes a super long time