>>21149468The second, growing from the above, is the supreme Hindu goal - of liberation, of acceptance, of escape.
In general terms, if European philosophy has been about figuring how the world work and Far Eastern philosophy (China) about how to make sure society works in harmony, Hindu philosophy has been about how to escape from the world we're in, how to get out.
They developed three ways.
The first one is about dropping out of society altogether. Fuck all, let's go live in a woods, absorbed in pure consciousness. All the ascetic schools - Vedanta, Samkhya, etc. - can be grouped into this category.
The second is Buddhism, which is like this: This place is fucked up, let me get out of this but also improve the lot of others because this will diminish their suffering. It must be noted that for the first time hospitals and schools and banks appeared in India under Buddhist rule. The biggest university in the middle ages, was Nalanda, a thoroughly Buddhist one. Even if Buddhism simplified things for normie jeets that if you do good, you'll get brownie points, in this way at least it gave Indians some reason to actually work together. And it's interesting that things got worse in India the moment Buddhist influence weakened and the Shaivite rose.
The third philosophy is tantra. It's about radical acceptance of things as they are. Everything's already perfect, god/conscousness is everywhere. Let's live like this, corpses and all. In fact, tantric schools make their disciples eat corpses and menstrual blood and shit in order to overcome the basic reflexes of shame, disgust, and fear. They think if you break basic human nature, on the level of instincts, this way, you'll get enlightened. All they create is PTSD zombies who accept their conditions without questioning - things are they way they are, and it's good.
