Maha-bharata Book Twelve, Volume 3: Part Two: The Book of Liberation
Still philosophical, but at this point the kind of philosophy changes. Instead of being about...
The Book of Liberation is perhaps the most enigmatic philosophical text from ancient India. Presented as the teachings of Bhishma as he lies dying on the battlefield, after the epic war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, it was composed by unknown authors in the last centuries BCE, during the early period of world-renunciation, when peripatetic sages meditated under trees and practiced austerities in forest groves, and wandering sophists debated in the towns and cities. There has been no time like it before or since: such freedom of thought and expression is unparalleled in the history of the world. The freedom enjoyed by these ancient thinkers was not an...
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Still philosophical, but at this point the kind of philosophy changes. Instead of being about how to act properly as a king to get good karma and go to heaven, this volume praises abandoning action along with desires and intentions and so forth in order to escape rebirth entirely by being reabsorbed into the brahman. In some ways this...
