#read that in sanskrit

[mayasaura]

do you think tamsyn is intentionally drawing a connection between the Buddhist eightfold path and the eightfold word?

the eightfold path is supposed to lead to liberation from the cycle of rebirth (I’m drawing a parallel to lyctoral immortality) and the last element is right samadhi which is often described as “meditative absorption or union” (a parallel to the consumption of the cavalier and absorption of the soul)

idk just food for thought i’ve been mulling over

I've been pondering this for a while myself. I've never heard the word "eightfold" used in any other context. Like, it could very much be a coincidence because #-fold is a Portentous Word Form, and eight Houses contributed to the theorum, but let's assume for now there is a connection.

I would say it's less of a parallel and more of a reflection. This framing of the Eightfold Word would make it kind of a warped mirror of the Eightfold Path.

Following the Eightfold Path delivers you from samsara, right? The ultimate purpose is to break the cycle of reincarnation that binds a person to the worlds of mundane suffering. That last element, right samadhi, it's about the illusion of existence being transcended in meditation to see the true nature of being. The Path leads to understanding of the self as transient—an illusion created by a much larger whole. Or something like that. I'm not a priest or bodhisattva, or even a scholar dedicated to understanding these things.

Speaking the Eightfold Word is entirely the opposite. The lyctors have subsumed the other into the self, making the self the center of their being. They haven't been freed from the cycle so much as they've jammed the wheel, leaving themselves trapped in the suffering of their existence for, theoretically, eternity.

I don't know if it's an intentional reference or not, but I do enjoy considering the implications of lyctorhood from that perspective. John and the lyctors have become so consumed by their obsession with the self and ensuring its continuance, it's broken all the bonds that would make them part of a larger whole in this life and left them each alone together in their own private hells. Speaking the Eightfold Word means that they'll never reach the other shore.

#tl note: 'transcendent wisdom' in sanskrit is prajnaparamita - literally translated as the wisdom of the other shore #prajnaparamita is more relevant to the bodhisattva path than the eightfold path #but I do think it's interesting that it's a heresy unto Jod to believe in another shore beyond the River #I'm not confident that any of this was intentional in the text because I know christian teachings conceptualise the soul differently #as being immutable and eternal in a way buddhism does not which (might?) justify the obsession with continuance #but the nature of the soul in TLT seems to be somewhere between those understandings #and closer to a Buddhist or Confucian understanding of the soul as something that can be divided destroyed or changed #that could totally be a bias in my reading #but the way communal souls like RBs and Alecto work and that John saw Alecto through contact with Cristabel's soul has me thinking twice #the locked tomb #tlt meta #the eightfold word

[glossglamour]

HINDI ? ON HOUSE MD ??

#my country REPRESENT ! #gg.txt #house md #2x12 #wait i can read the title #but wtf is that on the page #on the sides #is that a different langaueg #is that sanskrit #or did they really make up random words .....

[determinate-negation]

The old systems of expression- for instance, the scripts of the most ancient languages- betray vagueness in a variety of ways which we would not tolerate in our writing today.

Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

#freud #psychoanalysis #my coworker was telling me hes reading a book about languages and in one language #i think sanskrit but im not sure but ​in ancient stories they have two completely different meanings in the exact same words #mine

[camilleisdrawing]

don't make the goddess angry

भिन्दानो हृदयमसाहि नोदवज्रः Śiśupālavadha 8.39.

(commissions open! dm me on ig: camilleisdrawing or tw: camilleisdrawin for more info)

#camilleisdrawing #this took months lol #tia pepa #pepa #pepa madrigal #encanto #disney encanto #encanto edit #encanto fanart #digital art #fanart #digital illustration #digital painting #encanto headcanons #sanskrit #I cannot read devanaagarii anymore #but i will have to #taking another sanskrit course next term #sfjajodfoa #art commissions #commissions open

[borgiabeacon]

The Endless Epic: Mahābhārata

Heard of Mahābhārata? This ancient Indian epic is about ten times the length of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey combined.

Meaning: it never ends.

Its longest version consists of over 100,000 śloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each śloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. At about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is about four times the length of the Rāmāyaṇa, compiled as oral and written stories between 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE.

It is an ultra-marathon of moral conundrums, philosophical dilemmas, and the classic tussle between team good and team evil, all rolled into an astonishing narrative feast.

#history art #mahabharata #india #culture #art #history of india #ramayana #odyssey #hindu mythology #ai experiments #illustration #fun facts #history #indian #sanskrit #narrative #storytelling #ancient history #epic #books and reading

[unhonestlymirror]

Many of you, guys, perceive Lithuania the same way English colonizers perceived Indian women in sari. Shall I tell you this story?

#it's not like I mind ships or national clothes but i wish there were more different perspectives on actual history and actual culture #for example people who draw India or Kazakhstan #every time it's just their national clothes. which is okay but #i wish they drew India as a YT mathematician because yk #Indians are veeeery famous for explaining difficult problems easily #India is not their folk clothes only and perceiving it as such is no different from imperialistic thinking #same with Qazaqstan. you guys know they don't dress like that on daily basis right? #you guys know they're the richest Asian country right? #I've never seen people drawing e.g. Lithuania just interacting with any other country except the popular ships #where are my jokes about India being a second great grandparent to Lithuania??? #Lithuanian language is considered to be the closest to Sanskrit. also Lithuania loves Krishnaits #come on man use your imagination and ability to read news and connect the dots it's not that hard and it's not forbidden #where is Lithuania interacting with England?? they have lots of business together. #where is Lithuania listening to USA complaining about UK?? it's such a wide space for jokes and funny jokes #which i don't draw because i have studies #where is Lithuania interacting with Italy? google Bona Sforza #you guys perceive Lithuania like some kind of isolated colony. and you do the same shit with Ukraine and Belarus and Latvia and-

[opje]

For the love of all that is holy, please stop saying that Robert was a Communist. You are completely misunderstanding who he was as a person if you honestly believe that that was the only political ideology that he subscribed to. He believed in aspects of Communism, and he realized after two of his friends returned from Russia that true Communism could never be achieved. He believed in giving to the people who were going to get shit done, but he himself was a New Deal Democrat (aka a Socialist). I am so heartbroken that people to this day continue to call the man a Communist when he made it clear to Chevalier that he had never been one. This was long after his security clearance was removed that he said this after Chevalier wrote a shit book that was so clearly based off of Robert. No doubt to sell more copies, but thankfully most of the scientific community and historians knew that that was bullshit.

#god why are people so blind I swear people on this website see what they want to #Oppenheimer #Julius Robert Oppenheimer #history #He also was friends with everyone even Republicans #Lawrence was a hardcore Republican and they were fairly close #as was the man who taught him Sanskrit #He understood that while Communism has wonderful aspects to it that it can never and will never work #y’all need to read some primary fucking sources 😭 #the saddest part is that the propaganda against him won #he cared deeply for the causes that communists believed in but not necessarily the entirety of Marxist ideology #so tired of bad takes #history is never black and white #stop projecting your beliefs onto history and get the facts straight #it’s cool if you want to believe in whatever but Robert is not you and you are not him #ranting ignore me I’m just pissed #yes I know that he tried to make his stance more ambiguous in his book but it was clear that he was straight up calling Robert a Communist #even before the Red Scare Robert still hadn’t truly been a member of the party but he did support his students who were members and staff #as a historian I cannot tell you how much it upsets me how people twist the truth

[blakelivelygf]

cillian murphy really read the bhagvad gita in preparation for oppenheimer....everytime i think he can't surprise me anymore he does

#i love him omg #glad to see people actually realising that oppenheimer did read the gita and studied sanskrit !!!!! #cillian murphy #oppenheimer

[roaringwish]

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world.

But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”

#touhou #2hu #okina matara #my art #art by op #yeah this is vent art that's why it's a little sloppy #the sanskrit text was supposed to be a line from the Lotus Sutra saying: #You should now awaken the power of faith And with perseverance abide in the good. #but in sanskrit these lines are translated completely differently so it only means that in spirit #I wanted to make the background not be obviously distinguishable from Okina's hair #something something and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself talking to itself reading its own code

[meowyoi]

oppenheimer thoughts: really good but what's with the dick riding scenes. and it's not just like ooh sex gross like both of them are weird 😭

#spoiler alert for anyone who doesn't wanna know #in the first one this woman is riding him then suddenly gets off him to look at his books #brings one back that's in sanskrit and makes him read lines such as 'i have become death' #or 'destroyer of worlds' or something while the continues to ride him lol?? #in the second one they're interrogating him about his relations with the same woman and as his wife finds out he's having an affair #she's having a vision of her literally riding him in front of her while the interrogation is still going on #and that second one is from AN ANGLE. an angle indeed????

[xx-vergil-xx]

*wwe announcer voice*: in this corner we have 50 pages of reading and a discussion post due at midnight and in the opposite corner–– oh, wait–– oh–– oh–– and ladies and gentlemen it’s a  46 chapter immaculately written 150k house md fic we just found on ao3 with a steel chair–––

#it's a wonder I ever get anything done #I will bitch and moan about a 20 page piece on color studies and then willingly spend two hours translating sanskrit for a fanfiction #will take three hours to read one chapter of a textbook and devour 100k slow burn faster than the speed of light in defiance of physical law #how do I channel this mental energy into other things #where does it go #man

[elliebearart]

"Oh, mighty Love, thine arrows are made of flowers. How can they be so sharp?" -- Kalidasa, Shakuntala

#I saw this while reading for my world lit class #and I was like ah the hopeless romantics are really gonna love this one #literature #shakuntala #eastern literature #sanskrit #bookblr #dark academica #light academia #academia aesthetic #words #text post #dark academia aesthetic #light academia aesthetic #classic academia

[ahaura]

having a normal one tonight while scouring the dictionary of a dead language <3

#° #it's been extinct for over a thousand years and ppl have recovered the manuscripts and translated them #and ur reading the words for someone (or the approximation of them) (or just trying to) from 1000 years ago... idk it fills me with love:') #i underlined the ones making me crazy #also for context BS stands for buddhist sanskrit as theres a lot of crossover w both khotan and tokhara #<- (from what i have been able to glean. i am not a professional just some guy.)

[andrasta14]

Oh man...I do so love looking over my bookshelves and happening upon yet another example of my delusions of grandeur. 👀

Like, girl, when exactly were you planning on teaching yourself Sanskrit???? 🤣

#I can't even with myself sometimes 😅 #though to be fair I *do* already know a bit...I can speak and understand somewhat...I just can't actually read it yet lol #hopefully I'll at least get around to teaching myself the alphabet before I kick the bucket 😂🙏 #anyone wondering why I can't seem to update my fics...here's one of many reasons xd #the days and life itself is simply too short for all the things I want to learn and do 😭😭😭 #plus my depression-fogged and ADHD-addled brain has the attention span of a gnat unless I'm feeling very motivated and energized *sigh* #ugh really need to get myself writing again...T_T #my random ramblings #books #language #Sanskrit

[hinsaa-paramo-dharma]

Adi Shankaracharya

Aryamba didn't knew what to feel. She could not believe that she had just allowed her beloved son Shankara to become a hermit. Shankara had decided to become a hermit in the age when other children are oblivious to the meaning of hermitage. He had learned the teachings of the Vedas and Upanishads even before the age of eight years and had them entirely memorised. Shankara made his mother proud. But of course that didn't mean that she was not reluctant about making her son leave all attachments behind. After she had lost her husband, Shankara was the only one who gave her the purpose to live and now with him too leaving her, how will she be able to survive?

Yes, she had known this day would come. She had known this even before Shankara's birth. Lord Shiva himself had told her this in her dream. She was well informed that her child is an incarnation of Mahadeva too, but a mother's heart still can't bear part from her son no matter if he is the God of Gods. He was still her little Shankara. Her dear son. But he won't be that anymore. Now, he will dedicate his life for the well being of the world. Now, he won't have these worldly relations, he will be a monk, a sanyasi.

Shankara approached his mother to give a last good-bye. He had took off all the jewelleries that Aryamba used to adorn him in, the only things that he had graced himself with was a rudraksh maala and his janeyu. A Saffron dhoti was the only piece of garment he wore. "Mother, it is time for me to leave now." Shankara said. Aryamba knew she couldn't do anything to stop this to happen now. She agreed, fighting back tears. But a few tears slipped from her eyes nonetheless.Shankara reached towards her to wipe them gently and then embraced her in a hug. She pulled apart after a long time and whispered "Will you promise me something, Shankara?". He nodded even before Aryamba could explain further. He wanted to do everything he could to make his mother feel better. She continued "I want you to do my last rites.". A hermit is not allowed to take participation in any event that is related to the worldly relations he has left, it is considered impure and is condemned in society but even if he knew this, Shankara didn't reneged on the promise. He hugged her one last time and then left, leaving the illusions behind to embrace the real world.

Shankara needed a mentor, a guru to guide him through the scriptures and teach him the actual means to connect with the divine. After walking a long distance of 2000 kilometres he arrived in Omkareshwar near the banks of the holy Narmada. There, he was informed that there was an enlightened sage, Govinda Bhagvadpada who was deep in meditation in a cave by the Narmada. Shankara wanted to meet the Rishi and pray to him to become his guru. As he was making his way towards the cave believed to be the place where the sage is in, the waves of the Narmada started rising up. In only a matter of seconds, the waves turned so violent that the nearby places got flooded. The peasants present there started screaming and crying for help as the waves grew so much that they reached the adjacent village. All except Shankara. He didn't felt terrified even if the waves came close to him, as they came close to the Rishi 's cave. The soul is eternal at the end, what would a river do to harm it? One's spirit belongs to the supreme reality, the pram bhrama himself that makes one's soul more powerful than anything in this materialistic world, so why would did river terrify him? He took his kamandalu and put it in front of the Narmada. The river calmed down immediately. Govinda Bhagvadpada had witnessed it all with his eyes. He could not believe that a child can have this much power to calm the mighty Narmada. He felt divine, like a call from God himself. Govinda Bhagvadpada was astonished. He approached Shankara, stunned. Shankara bowed down to him and after blessing him, he asked "Who are you?"

Govinda Bhagvadpada did not knew that the answer to his question will become the beginning of a new philosophy, a verse that will start the Advaita, a verse that will enlighten the whole world about what atman is.

मनोबुद्ध्यहङ्कार चित्तानि नाहं

न च श्रोत्रजिह्वे न च घ्राणनेत्रे ।

न च व्योम भूमिर्न तेजो न वायुः

चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥

Neither am I the mind nor intelligence or ego,

Neither am I the organs of hearing (ears), nor that of tasting (tongue), smelling (nose) or seeing (eyes),

Neither am I the sky, nor the earth, neither the fire nor the air,

I am Shiva, the supreme auspiciousness of the nature of consciousness-bliss.

I am Shiva, the auspiciousness.

#This is the first time I have written anything besides my school projects #And it was DIFFICULT #if anyone else knows about Adi Shankaracharya then please write about him because I suck at this writing thing #Also if you bother to read the whole thing then let me know if I did some grammatical (there will be many) mistakes #Or if I forgot some essential part of their life- #I only added one verse of the Nirvana shatkam because I thought the text would get too long if I added the whole thing #(another reason is that my sanskrit absolutely sucks and I don't think I will be able to translate the whole Nirvana shatkam by myself-)

[wisdom-and-such]

“This body ends as ash, dry dust, or slime, And ultimately shit, no essence left. Consumed, evaporated, rotted down– Thus know its nature: to disintegrate.

The ground, Mount Meru, and the oceans too  Will be consumed by seven blazing suns; Of things with form no ashes will be left, No need to speak of puny, frail man.

It’s all impermanent... So if you’re not to stay there refugeless...  drag your mind away, O King...”.

#Nagarjuna #letter to a friend #letter #friend #buddhism #quotes #literature #sanskrit #scripture #books #reading #good books #inspiration #meditation #samsara #death #life