Never ceases to amaze me how locked in most Westerners are to a belief system that argues back and forth within itself and never looks abroad to the great thinkers of all time—Patanjali, Shankara, Aurobindo, on and on. These men (and a few women) settled the big questions, (what is consciousness, what does it mean to be a human being.) long ago. Look them up and learn something.
Sri Aurobindo lived a century after Cantor, Shankara lived over a thousand years after ancient Greeks (like the Stoics) who said essentially the same thing, and Patañjali most likely never existed as an individual, since almost everything about Patañjali is unknown.
When they lived seems immaterial to me. They shared a common vision with countless Eastern sages, going back before even the Vedas, that at the most basic level, God, Cosmic Consciousness, That (pick a name), and humanity are literally one. That is an idea that is foreign to Western religions and philosophies, (excluding some Greeks like Plotinus), but is the substrate for knowing the reason and purpose of our existence.
Never ceases to amaze me how locked in most Westerners are to a belief system that argues back and forth within itself and never looks abroad to the great thinkers of all time—Patanjali, Shankara, Aurobindo, on and on. These men (and a few women) settled the big questions, (what is consciousness, what does it mean to be a human being.) long ago. Look them up and learn something.
Sri Aurobindo lived a century after Cantor, Shankara lived over a thousand years after ancient Greeks (like the Stoics) who said essentially the same thing, and Patañjali most likely never existed as an individual, since almost everything about Patañjali is unknown.
When they lived seems immaterial to me. They shared a common vision with countless Eastern sages, going back before even the Vedas, that at the most basic level, God, Cosmic Consciousness, That (pick a name), and humanity are literally one. That is an idea that is foreign to Western religions and philosophies, (excluding some Greeks like Plotinus), but is the substrate for knowing the reason and purpose of our existence.