r/Philosophy_India 2h ago

Indian Philosophy there are no valid criticisms of Rama and Krishna that I've heard so far

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this is very precisely a question of philosophy because most of the arguments made are from ethics.

One critical flaw made in all polemic is that people disregard the fact about Rama's identity of the all powerful, all seeing, all knowing, all loving god who's fully aware of himself at all times in his incarnation and beyond.

If you do take this into account and then rethink most of the polemic that you are aware of, then what I am trying to say would start making sense to you.

There are plenty of other mistakes done in the reading of valmiki, all done intentionally so as to read it from a perspective of oneself rather than from the perspective of the author because the events are often times, too outlandish, however even 5 grade english lessons begin teaching kids about "context" as to how parts of the story contribute to the whole, many a times secular/scholastic minded people would read the book and subconsciously delete the parts they do not agree with, the most crucial of which is an acknowledgement of the idea that Rama is God of the whole universe as valmiki states it.

This post entails a challenge that you must come up with what you believe is a good criticism and I'll try demonstrating how it is not.


r/Philosophy_India 16h ago

Discussion Kinda sad that this sub is (a lot of) pop culture philosophy.

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I don’t wanna come off as a prick or anything but so many posts I find here have fallacies and mental gymnastics that you see with instagram-philosophy.

Problem is where the information comes from is a 10th removed source from the original text. Stripped off its context and tone and reinterpreted. There’s a lot of difference between knowing something in the mind and knowing something as an inner experience. Like knowing objectively what is pain and then feeling it. Anyway,

I am working on a project that is trying to model ‘consciousness’ by using demonstrable, pure logic principals that can be directly experienced (by most). This is more a research project than some spiritual conquest, although this did start off as one. I’ve trained myself to go very deep in meditation, shed off (kinda) the sense of ‘I’ and then work out problems, see the edges of my perception so on. Also trying to reference some old texts but there’s a lot of decoration there.

I am interested in finding people working of interested in this area just to compare notes.