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Sharing my own understanding of Vedanta & Indian psychology, as well as knowledge & insights from Vedic philosophers from India & rest of the world.
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- Infinity is a property of reality, transforming into finite divine forms the moment the human mind engages with it, reflecting a limitation of comprehension. - This mirrors the Hindu philosophical distinction between Nirguna Brahman, the formless infinite divine essence, and
Is infinity a concept of the mind or a property of reality? ✍️
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"They referred every thing to Pythagoras, and called it by his name, and that they did not ascribe to themselves the glory of their own inventions, except very rarely" -Iamblichus [245- 325 CE] This is an admission from within the Greek tradition that Greek
@JoeAgneya if Indian idealism & metaphysics could reach Greece, why not mathematics? The Śulbasūtras had the 'Pythagorean theorem', it's plausible mathematical seeds from India reached Europe earlier via Hellenistic contacts, even if the decimal system later through the Islamic middleman.
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A large chunk of Aristotlean & Platonic texts are forgeries (Not written by Plato or Aristotle). If you examine them, you will see that both Āstika & Nāstika systems of thought have been digested, cut and pasted in mosaic pattern all over. This literary mosaic behavior is also
@JoeAgneya Though my focus is on Upanishadic influence on both Pyrrho's philosophy & Christian mysticism, I came across an uncanny similarity between Aristotle's 'virtuous mean' (Mesotēs) and Buddha's 'middle way' (Majjhimāpaṭipadā). Could this be mere coincidence or possible influence?
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@ElstKoenraad Philo of Alexandria (1st century CE) emphasized a formless transcendent God, similar to Brahm in Vedanta. Plotinus (3rd century CE), founder of Neoplatonism, reportedly travelled to India to learn from sages.
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Only the Brahman knows! Quantum physics, often touching metaphysics, reveals that matter exhibits wave-particle duality. Physical objects possess both particle-like and wave-like properties, as does light, behaving as both a wave and a corpuscle. Each of us has an associated
Want to know your wavelength? 😎 The de Broglie equation, λ = h/p, shows that all matter with non-zero momentum (p) has wave-like properties, revealing the universal wave-particle duality of nature—not just for light! For fun, try calculating your wavelength! Take your mass (in
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Some insights stemmed from the common Indo-European heritage. But the most subtle ones got forgotten in the rough & tumble of the migration from India, which alone preserved the purity of the origins. Fortunately ppl like Pythagoras & Plotinus borrowed direct Hindu insights.
@ElstKoenraad Philo of Alexandria (1st century CE) emphasized a formless transcendent God, similar to Brahm in Vedanta. Plotinus (3rd century CE), founder of Neoplatonism, reportedly travelled to India to learn from sages.
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Conclusion: The Vedas were monistic from the very beginning. They do not fit into the Western model of religious progression. Their key message is not anthropomorphic deities, but spiritual monism, later refined in the Upanishads. A misreading distorts their essence.
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Further: -He is the unifying essence of the universe, the principle sustaining cosmic and moral order. -There was neither Being nor non-Being… That One breathed self-sustained. These passages dispel the notion of a simplistic evolution from polytheism to monotheism.
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Illustrations from Vedic texts: -The One Real, the wise declare as many. -Purusha is all this, all that was, and all that shall be. -Aditi, the Boundless, is all—sky, air, men, past, present, future.
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The Vedas make it clear: when gods are praised, it is not as independent entities but as expressions of the higher Reality. The hymns embody a vision of unity-in-difference, beyond rigid labels like ‘polytheism’ or ‘monotheism’.
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If polytheism led to monotheism, a sole deity would rule the cosmos. But the Vedas show no such shift. Instead of ‘henotheism,’ they present the personal (Saguna Brahm) as a manifestation of the Nirguṇa Brahm, an impersonal and transcendent principle.
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The Vedas do not establish a hierarchy of gods, as one would expect if monotheism had replaced polytheism. Instead, the Supreme Self is repeatedly emphasised as the binding force of the universe, a vision far beyond anthropomorphic deities.
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The Vedic sages were intellectual and spiritual visionaries who experienced direct mystic insight. Their hymns do not reflect simple polytheism, but rather spiritual monism, a philosophy that later found full expression in the Upanishads.
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This linear evolutionary model — polytheism → monotheism → monism — is deeply flawed. It assumes the Vedic seers were merely awestruck by nature, rather than profound thinkers engaging with deep metaphysical insights.
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Max Müller’s ‘henotheism’ suggests that Vedic people worshipped one god at a time as supreme. This implies a progression from many gods to one, and ultimately to monism. However, this interpretation misreads the core philosophy of the Vedas.
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Western scholars, and some Indian scholars influenced by them, argue that early Vedic Aryans were primitive nature-worshippers. They claim Vedic religion evolved from polytheism to monotheism, with 'henotheism' as a transitional phase.
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