/lit/ - Literature

>>20082015
the upanishads have elements of pantheism, nondualism and monism but also dualism and other things

shankara applied medieval buddhist idealist metaphysics and epistemology to revived vedanta and read a monist nondualist system into the upanishads

according to guenonfag the best translator is Olivelle, because he admits that advaita is not the philosophy of the original upanishads.

>>18971186
So you agree with Sharma that Mahayana is basically identical to Advaita, okay. Is this why you were originally a Buddhist just like Shankara?

>>18870286
Here is an answer from /lit/'s biggest fan of the Upanishads

Olivelle

I even saw Guenonfag break down and cry that he had spent so long denying that Advaita was crypto-buddhism when he knew it in his heart and everyone else knew that he knew it. He said it was humiliating.

>>18769613
>My interpretation is superior to a thousand years of Hindus and 200 years of scholars (including Hindus)

Very impressive... But here I have Guenonfag himself agreeing with the opposite interpretation, so checkmate.

>>18574216
You are correct about everything. Advaitins will try to sell you nonsense about the "conditional" existence of things they need to exist for their philosophy to make sense, but can't admit really exist because then they are not true advaitins.

It is a confused religion for people who never get past the first stages of mysticism.

bumping

Now that guenonfag himself has debunked and refuted advaita, what is the best system? Ramanuja's?