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shinymoonbird · 2 years

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O son, always experience non-duality (advaita) in the heart, but do not at any time put non-duality in action. Non-duality is fit to be expressed even with the three Gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva in their three worlds, but know that non–duality is not fit to be expressed with the Guru.

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— Sri Ramanopadesa Noonmalai - Ulladu Narpadu - Anubandham, V.39 pg.155-156 (pdf)

Note : Non-duality (advaita) is the experience in which it is clearly known that all forms of duality such as the mind, body and world are completely non-existent, and that self, the existence-consciousness ‘I am’, alone truly exists. Therefore, since action can be done only in the state of duality, in which the mind and body seem to exist, it is impossible to put non-duality into action. If anyone imagines that he can put non-duality into action, it is clear that he has no true experience of non-duality.

Even though one may go to Brahma-loka and say to Brahma, “You and I are one”, even though one may go to Vishnu-loka and say to Vishnu, “You and I are one”, and even though one may go to Siva-loka and say to Siva, “you and I are one”, one should never say to the Guru, “you and I are one.”

Why? Because although as an individual one may attain the power to create, sustain and destroy the universe, which are the functions of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva respectively, one can never attain the power to destroy the ignorance of others, which is the role of the Guru.

Even when the Guru has bestowed the experience of non-duality upon a disciple, thereby destroying his individuality and making him one with Himself, such a true disciple will ever continue to pay due respect and honour to the name and form of the Guru, because so long as separate individuals, each having a body and mind of his own, the differences between them will seem to exist. Therefore, even the disciple who has known the Reality, and who thus experiences in the heart that he is one with the Guru, will always behave outward as a humble slave of the Guru, thereby setting a worthy example for other disciples to follow.

This verse was composed by Sri Bhagavan on 16th February 1938 and is a translation of verse 87 of Sri Adi Sankara’s Tattvopadesa.

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Brahma-loka: That part of the many-layered universe that is the realm of pious celestial spirits.

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#Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi #Ulladu Narpadu: Anubandham #Reality in Forty Verses-Supplement #UNAnubandham v.39 #UNA v.39 #Guru #Sadguru #Sage #non-duality #advaita #self #existence-consciousness ‘I am’#association with sages #God-soul-world #loka #Sri Adi Sankara’s Tattvopadesa

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fujimousee · 3 months

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happy birthday robin !!!!

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dragons-art-den · 2 months

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Made this for @patricia-taxxon like a year ago! Now that I have Tumblr I can post it!!

#I absolutely love the Pix and Bit album #I love all her music #With My Tail to the World is a banger #and several of her videos-#Art Furries God #and the Marble Blast video #are huge comfort videos of mine #her content and especially her music hit a very autism place in my soul #my art #artists on tumblr #patricia taxxon #traditional art

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druidonity2 · 6 months

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What if I were mentally ill and void of the light's presence and hung out with Alleria Windrunner wouldn't that be really cool

#world of warcraft #anduin wrynn #alleria windrunner #The War Within #Im gonna manifest shadowreaper into WoW even if I have to sell my soul to the devil #some form of that voidy ass bitch WILL appear in WoW i swear to god #Hearthstone made the coolest fucking version of Anduin and never touched him again #Okay but seriously Anduin does have some small history with void and it would make me so happy #if we got to see some portion of his story arc revolve around it and using it #and I dont mean in a 'lets have a second villain arc' i mean more like #bro is a priest lets explore how shadow can be harnessed for good #as it clearly can be like using void doesnt automatically make him evil #ive seen some ppl assume i want a second evil arc and thats not really what this is #I will admit...I did make him look kinda evil inthis drawing tho.

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kyouka-supremacy · 5 months

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Every day I want to leave this franchise behind and then they drop stuff like this. This ain't queerbating this is queertrapping. Let me go

#Can you hear my tired voice. Can you sense my consumed soul #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd beast #mine #q.#03/02/2023 #Edit: God I'm NEVER getting over this art. Cultural reset the world turned upside down etc etc

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fouralignments · 1 year

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How the fuck did D&D: Honor Among Thieves actually look so much better costume wise than Amazon Rings of Power??? D&D budget: 150 Million; Rings of Power: 465 Million ($89.4 million per episode)

Rings of Power:

D&D: Honor Among Thieves

(Theses are extras/goons)

The villainess is bitchen!

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THESES COSTUMES???? THIS IS WHAT I EXPECT OUT OF A FANTASY MOVIE!

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

#this is only the costumes the set design #the fight choreography #Oh yeah no end of the world #d&d honor among thieves #honor among thieves #There was just so much passion and soul that went this movie and it SHOWS in every single frame #This hands down will become a fantasy CLASSIC in the likes of the Princess Bride #Please watch this movie #God damn this movie its so good #I want to see this movie again #I want theses types of movies Honor Among Thieves and John Wick 4 and campy horror

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einaudis · 22 days

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ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023) dir. ANDREW HAIGH

#filmedit #filmgifs #movieedit #moviegifs #All of Us Strangers #aousedit #filmtvdaily #filmtvcentral #cinemapix #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #mine*#mygifs #movies*#I can't believe this is done. and you won't believe how long it took me to make it. insane... because it's just a scene #I didn't even use different fonts. or a cool template. or transitions... it was a single scene... but look... I made captures for 10 gifs #and things kept happening and I kept finding little gestures and beautiful things and I just couldn't keep them out the gifs #I mean look at Harry and that slow realization. please look at the glow around his shoulders at the beginning #and how ethereal and out of this world he already is AND THEN when Adam says 'I found you' he becomes more... real and present!#and those eyes and the intensity of that 'you're here' and their eyes and faces and smiles and how Harry's desperate but Adam calms him dow #and his voice when he asks 'how come no one found me?' the realization that people didn't care to check on him. it screamed to my soul #I haven't stopped thinking about that scene since the moment I first watched it #honestly... I wish I could live in this scene forever #now this is a super long post and I know it won't get many notes and it was surely made before... but I needed to make this for myself...#so here it is :) I'm tired but I love it #GOD the way Harry goes full baby when Adam caresses his cheek and he SMILES LIKE THAT! AHHHHHHH!#*runs down the hill screaming*

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whaliiwatching · 10 months

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the shore was kissed by sea and mist… tenderly

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big inspired by this post <3

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #record from the future ;)#i was so close to using ‘it only takes a moment’ from hello dolly. but it didnt fit the vibe #ella fitzgerald’s tenderly tho? perfect #noir’s world is a sensory heaven its like a weighted blanket on your entire soul #i tried to draw a gramophone myself. be thankful for free stock photos #drawing kissing is so fucking hard ugh but this turned out ok #i am. proud question mark of it #gods i fucking love them. theyre sharing music theyre dancing to soft jazz #hobie brings records from the future and noir gives him records from the past…………. dont touch me #they’re in LOVE in love do you UNDERSTAND ME

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moonloredraws · 1 year

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Don't listen too closely to strange music you hear on the winds

#D&D #dnd #Orc #Necromancer #Bard #This is the avatar of the god of necromancy from Manala #He'll steal your soul when you listen to the music he plays on his cursed instrument #the world of Manala #Shadow Orc

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nag-mamahal · 11 months

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"I am to be a king of a ruined world and I shall never die"

Gonna make this my graduation yearbook quote in honor of my favorite 250 year old pathetic evil apocalypse-starting bureaucratic catboy homophobic gay twink man.

I feel like it really describes my vision for myself and the world around me going forward <3

#elias bouchard #the magnus archives #yeehaw #tma shitpost #god cleanse my soul with fire i need help #i am at death's door and the only thing holding me back is one wet cat evil mastermind wannabe of a fictional man #you think you've won pero all this time basang sisiw ka lang talaga #it's okay there's room in the ruined world for creatures like you #no? okay well there's room for you in my heart #rest in peace elias i hope there's still pots for you to stir in the afterlife #you don't deserve it #but it'd be nice #no?

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jotun-philosopher · 2 months

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If you liked that, you might like this: Good Omens and World Of The Five Gods

Heyo! Time for another ramble~!

Good Omens has given me a bit of a taste for theologically interesting fantasy, which led me to the World of the Five Gods series by Lois McMaster Bujold -- let me tell you about it! (Not everything, but hopefully enough to whet your appetite and spark your curiosity ^_^)

Putting everything under a cut, because while this isn't really a meta and I'm going to try to avoid spoilers as far as possible, I am going to be infodumping so it's gonna get loooooooooong XD #AutismForTheWin

So! World of the Five Gods is set in a sort of fantasy-counterpart-culture version of Medieval Europe (more or less late Reconquista era), but with the map rotated 180 degrees. Consistent across countries and cultures is the Quintarian religion, which involves worship of a pantheon of five gods:

The Father of Winter, who deals with mature manhood, fatherhood, justice, fairness, leadership, natural deaths, male virility and suchlike. His colours are grey and black.

The Mother of Summer, who covers mature womanhood, motherhood, love and its results, female sexuality, birth, renewal and healing/medicine, among others. Her colour is green.

The Daughter of Spring, whose purview is youth, beauty, virginity, education and planting. Her colour is blue, which is frequently trimmed with white.

The Son of Autumn, who covers war, hunting, courage, harvest and emotion. His colours are red and orange.

The Bastard, the broadly benevolent but frequently inscrutable trickster figure of the pantheon. His purview is orphans, demons, disasters and chaos, illegitimate children, queer folks, executioners, divine justice where mortal justice fails, lives unnaturally cut short, "all things out of season". His colour is white. He likes it when his followers 'pray' to him by cursing him out, both because they're actually *thinking* about their situations and because he finds it hilarious. (His sense of humour is a bit odd...) At the uttermost end of mortal justice, when all else has failed, one can pray to the Bastard for a 'death miracle', which if successful will kill both you and the intended target via one of the Bastard's demons taking your soul and theirs.

The Quadrene religion views the Bastard as a demon rather than a god, and reviles as heretical those matters which fall within his purview.

The gods have total power over the world of spirit, but their ability to affect the world of matter is highly limited at best; they thus have to rely on mortal agents. The tool is not the work, though -- tools get broken, after all -- so being a tool of the gods tends to really fucking suck.

WotFG has (at time of writing) three novels and twelve novellas.

The novels are:

The Curse of Chalion -- The Daughter's book. An escapee from a slave galley seeks a position in the household of his old patroness, is assigned as secretary-tutor to the Royesse (= princess) of Chalion (roughly equivalent to Castile in Reconquista-era Spain) and does his darndest to protect her from the deadly court machinations of the PROFOUNDLY evil chancellor and his brother while also seeking a way to break the curse of the title. (Seriously, get you someone who's as fiercely loyal and devoted to you as Cazaril is to 'his ladies'!)

Paladin of Souls -- The Bastard's book, and direct sequel to Curse, taking place a few years later. Ista, Dowager Royina of Chalion, is fed up of being locked in her rural castle by well-meaning caretakers who mistake her god-touched status for insanity. She goes on what is ostensibly a pilgrimage for her mother's soul, and finds that the gods are not done with her yet... (not quite the little-old-lady fantasy hero I've seen tumblr posts about -- Ista's in her forties -- but she is *very* badass and outspoken; one can imagine her being played by Catherine Tate)

The Hallowed Hunt -- The Son's book, set about 250 years before Curse, in the Weald (roughly analogous to Germanic areas). Ingrey kin Wolfcliff is dispatched to a remote castle to collect a young woman called Ijada, as well as the corpse of the highborn would-be rapist whose head she bashed in with a giant war hammer. Devious machinations and long-laid schemes abound surrounding the Hallow Kingship of the Weald, into which Ingrey and Ijada are swiftly drawn.

The twelve (so far) novellas focus on Learned Penric kin Jurald, scholar and sorcerer-divine of the Bastard's order, and his demon Desdemona. They take place roughly 150 years after Hunt (so, about a century before the start of Curse) and start out set in the Cantons (equivalent to Switzerland), but Penric (and the stories) travel around a fair bit. There is some interesting gender-wibbliness involved as well, because all of Desdemona's hosts prior to Penric were female, still live on in some way within her such that Penric can channel and converse with them, and Penric has to cross-dress more than once (particularly and memorably channelling the courtesan Mira).

In terms of approximate internal chronology, the Penric novellas are:

Penric's Demon, Penric and the Shaman, Penric's Fox (collected in the omnibus titled 'Penric's Progress')

Penric's Mission, Mira's Last Dance, The Prisoner of Limnos (collected in the omnibus titled 'Penric's Travels')

Masquerade In Lodi [chronologically earlier than the stories in Penric's Travels], The Orphans of Raspay, The Physicians of Vilnoc (collected in the omnibus titled 'Penric's Labors')

The Assassins of Thasalon, Knot of Shadows, Demon Daughter (at time of writing, to the best of my knowledge, only available in e-book format)

The novels and novellas can technically be read in any order (though, being a sequel to Curse, Paladin of Souls contains spoilers for that book). Personally, I find the worldbuilding easiest to digest when reading the novels in publication order (Curse, Paladin, Hunt), then the Penric stories. It's up to you, though!

The setting of WotFG as a whole (as I mentioned at the start) is informed to varying degrees by the history of Spain's 'Reconquista' era; the influence is especially strong in The Curse of Chalion, to the point that I'd strongly advise against making a drinking game out of it -- there are parallels to persons and events you wouldn't think could *have* parallels! Good fodder for a history-side-of-tumblr meta post, though, eh? ;-) (pls tag me if you do make one, I'd love to read it!)

Having come to WotFG from Good Omens, I have a particular soft spot for the Penric stories -- there are a few parallels with GO (a small enough number that it's probably safe to make a drinking game out of it -- though I'd still recommend tumblr meta-posts as the safer and healthier alternative!), all of which are more than likely genuine coincidences, but enough to add an ineffably lovely layer of enjoyment :D Have fun finding 'em ^^ (Srsly, the AU fanfics almost write themselves...)

Happy reading!

(tagging @ao3cassandraic and @vidavalor -- I get the feeling you'll like WotFG if you haven't run across the series already)

#good omens #world of the five gods #the curse of chalion #paladin of souls #the hallowed hunt #penric and desdemona #lois mcmaster bujold #book recommendations #book recs

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shinymoonbird · 1 year

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Because we, who have become sight-joined, see the world, accepting one principle (or ‘first thing’, or fundamental) which has a power that becomes many is certainly the one best option. The picture of names and forms, the one who sees, the cohesive screen, and the pervading light – all these are he, who is oneself.

Sri Ramana Maharshi - Ulladu Narpadu (The Forty verses on Reality), Verse 2

[…] — pārvaisēr nāmulahaṅ kāṇḍalā ṉāṉāvāñ cattiyuḷa vōrmudalai yoppa lorutalaiyē — nāmavuruc cittiramum pārppāṉuñ cērpaḍamu māroḷiyu mattaṉaiyun tāṉā mavaṉ. […]

Explanatory paraphrase :

Because we, the ego or individual, whose adjunct-nature is the faculty to see things as other than ‘I’, see this world of multiplicity, it is indispensable for us to accept the existence of one first principle which has a power to appear as many. This worldpicture, which consists merely of names and forms, the seer of this picture, the screen or supporting base upon which this picture appears, and the pervading light which illumines this picture – all these are only He, that one first principle, who is none other than the real Self.

Because we, who [by rising as the ego] have become joined with sight, see the world, accepting one mudal [first thing, origin, source, base or fundamental reality] that has a power that becomes many [appearances, namely ourself as the ego, the seer or perceiver, and all the manifold phenomena that constitute this or any other world that we may see or perceive] is certainly the one best option. The picture of names and forms [namely the world and whatever other phenomena appear in the mind], the one who sees [this picture] [namely the ego], the cohesive screen [namely the mind as the background on which it appears], and the pervading light [namely the mind as the reflected light of awareness, which is what illumines its appearance] — all these are he [the one original thing], who is oneself [one’s real nature].

Explanatory Note :

The link-words at the beginning of this verse are pārvai sēr, which literally mean ‘who are joined with sight’, and which imply that the faculty of seeing is not natural to us but is only an adjunct which we have appended on ourself and from which we can consequently detach ourself.

The words ōr mudalai, which mean ‘one principle’ or ‘one first thing’, denote the one Reality which underlies the appearance of both the world and the seer. The entire appearance consisting of the world, the seer, the screen and the light are not other than that one first principle, which is affirmed in the last line of this verse to be the real Self. But so long as we experience a difference between ourself, the seer, and the world which we see, that one first principle will be experienced by us as God, a third separate entity who is endowed with unlimited qualities such as Omnipotence and Omniscience and who governs the entire world and all the souls in that world.

The words nāṉā ām śakti, which literally mean ‘a manifold power’ or ‘ a power which is many’, denote the power of Maya or delusion which is the cause of the appearances of all manyness and which is the same as the wonderful power (adisaya sakthi) mentioned in verse 6 of Arunachala Ashtakam. Though in absolute truth, this power is not other than the first principle, the real Self, it seems to be something different from the real Self when it gives rise to this appearance of manyness. Since manyness could not appear to exist if this power did not exist, and since there is nothing other than this power which could appear as many, it is sometimes said that this power itself has become many. However, its becoming many is not actually a real becoming, but only a seeming becoming, because even when manyness is seen, all that manyness is in truth only the one first principle, which is the non-dual real Self. The act of becoming many or seeming to become many is postulated only because we see the world. But even when we see this world of duality and multiplicity, non duality alone is the truth and hence all duality and multiplicity should be understood to be merely an unreal appearance.

The words “the pervading light” (ār oḷiyum) here mean the mind-light, which is a reflection of the real light of self-consciousness and which is the limited light by which we see the entire picture of names and forms.