page_title: René Guénon
section_title: Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta
hierarchical_section_title: René Guénon / Metaphysical core / Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta
caption_attribution_description: Photo perso de Ganesh Source&#160;: Shakti Statut&#160;: GFDL dans ce format Shakti
context_page_description: René-Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of mysticism, having written on topics ranging from sacred studies and traditional studies, to symbolism and initiation.
  He mainly wrote and published in French, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Later on he perfected his Arabic and from 1931 onwards wrote articles in that language for the journal Al Marifah, while outside French and Arabic he had command over Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Polish, able to talk with native speakers in these tongues. He is considered to be an important writer in the Traditionalist School of philosophy. Guénon's philosophy had a "charismatic impact" on Traditionalist authors.
context_section_description: The Introduction to the study of the Hindu doctrines had, among its objectives, the purpose of giving the proper intellectual basis to promote openness to the study of eastern intellectuality. The study of Hindu doctrines is continued in his book Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta by taking the specific viewpoint of the human being's constitution according to the Vêdantâ: Guénon states that his goal is not to present a synthetic exposition of all vedic doctrines "which would be quite an impossible task", but to consider "a particular point of that doctrine", in that case the definition of the human being, in order to contemplate afterwards other aspects of metaphysics.
caption: Ganeshâ, "Lord of meditation and mantras", "Lord of Knowledge", and "Lord of Categories", would be displayed in the front page cover of the Symbolism of the Cross's original edition
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