Once you know exactly what you want, there is no choice. ~ Swami Dayananda Saraswati Clarification I need to clarify an earlier post in which I quoted Paul Sedir. I remarked how similar the thoughts were to Rene Guenon’s. In checking the original source, I see that Sedir was in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Vedanta
The Importance of Caste in Traditional Civilization
Tradition is most clearly different from New Age and other neo-spiritualist movements in that it completely rejects any notion of equality in man. Traditional thinkers have repudiated attempts by individuals to use religion to impose this artificial state on people, and they often do this by demonstrating that egalitarianism is … Continue reading
Vedanta and Western Tradition
Lacking nothing, contemplative, immortal, self-originated, sufficed with a quintessence: he who knows that constant, ageless, and ever-youthful Spirit, knows himself and does not fear death. ~ Shankara In his important but little read essay, The Vedanta and Western Tradition, A. K. Coomaraswamy points the way for Europeans to come to … Continue reading
Buddhism and Tradition
Much has been made of Guenon’s initial rejection of Buddhism as a “Traditional” religious form, and his subsequent recantation of that position under the influence of some of his close colleagues. It is important to note the reason for that. Guenon accepted the common belief that Buddhism taught “anatman”, or … Continue reading