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@satnamo

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I like it: De consciousness of life Is higher than life, De knowledge of happiness Is higher than happiness- That is what I have to fight against! De source of happiness is from within. De source of unhappiness is ignoring de source of happiness. Happiness is impossible because happiness is de absent of happiness. Breath in I am happy Breath out I am calm. Das secret of calming down is to lighten up yo

@rubenfratean3256

3 жыл бұрын

You have no idea how refreshing this is. Just like Jocko's podcast...the deep darkness and complicated nature of ourselves ...If challenged, allows us to find meanings. So fuckin' stoked for this channel !

@crazyba1413

2 жыл бұрын

When I die cremate me on the river Ganges in India then spread my ashes in the center of the sphinx

@crazyba1413

2 жыл бұрын

Or throw the jar over the great wall of China

@atlanticocean711

2 жыл бұрын

What's the painting at 5:38 called?

To me, what makes Dostoevsky so uniquely brilliant and beautiful, is how it's so clear that the mock execution he was forced to endure had such a profound and incomparable impact on his psyche - and in turn, on his writing - for the rest of his life. He writes in a way that makes the reader fully believe that Dostoevsky MUST HAVE experienced the things he describes FIRST HAND - which, in the case of this dream, he very likely did. As indescribably terrifying and psychologically crippling as it must have been, I think we are all quite fortunate that Dostoevsky experienced, survived, and eventually rediscovered a sense of normality following what must have been a torturous life event.

Dostoevsky changed my life, his psychological, philosophical, masterpiece novels have been a major inspiration for me to stay sober. Crime and Punishment is the greatest novel I've ever read. I've also read The Idiot, and Notes from Underground. I just started reading Demons, and I have The Brothers Karamazov waiting on deck.

@luciocastro1418

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations bro! I know for experience how hard it can be to stay sober

@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet

2 ай бұрын

It's not easy to attain and then maintain sobriety. Congratulations to you. I hope you have held the line. The novels you refer to are absolute masterpieces in my mind. Don't dismiss the short stories, though. I see some germs of his novels in some of the short stories and they pack a whallop. Stay well. Stay sober.

I love these videos! I enjoy the exploration of dark themes. To quote Carl Jung: “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on Andrew! One of my fav quotes ever!

@shivayshakti6575

3 жыл бұрын

Loved the quote ❤️

@MJ-ix7wm

3 жыл бұрын

Dr. JBP!!!!!

@chanmeenachandramouli1623

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. MeenaC

@gododoof

2 жыл бұрын

Nice. I'm reading Man & His Symbols right now.

Its great u care about literature and philosophy in the miserable era of tiktok

@kimberlys.t.7206

9 ай бұрын

Agree I was thinking somewhere along those lines myself.

@tomwhaley3335

9 ай бұрын

Found the baby boomers ⬆️

@MoniqueWombat

6 ай бұрын

I'm only here bc of Tiktok

@zachadams6935

Ай бұрын

Tiktkok led me to Dostoevsky

Nice video but you missed the part in the end where he admits that concealing the fact that he corrupted them all was a mistake. I think that makes it clear that Dostoevsky isn't advocating for a utopia, since utopianists wouldn't admit that man is capable of evil. The way I understood it, the message is that man is capable of good as well as evil, and that potential for goodness despite evil is what gave the ridiculous man a sense of purpose.

Amazing short story, it's only around 20 pages but one of my all time favourites!

@satnamo

3 жыл бұрын

I see you wandering above a sea of clouds, Eternalized

@uncleusuh

3 жыл бұрын

Never have I imagined I would approach you, Raskolnikov!

@zarathustrap2562

2 жыл бұрын

@@uncleusuh don't approach him too much

@a.bagasm.7253

2 жыл бұрын

@@things_leftunsaid ahh you're a dreamer of ridiculous man

Excellent food for thought. To live for a dream even if it may never be realized.

@Eristhenes

3 жыл бұрын

"to dream the impossible dream"

"He is alone in his knowledge of the Truth, therefore he is alone and he is ridiculed."

Dostoevsky has this amazing ability to be both incredibly dark and hopeful at the same time. I love it. Its a reminder that your outlook could be positive, even when going through difficult times. Dostoevsky experienced a very traumatic life that made him into the wonderful person he was. Trauma can very much be a crucible for ones personal development if one approaches the situation appropriately. Trauma does not need to break you (forever), you can get through this! Much love to everyone reading this.

Dostoyevsky will always be read, discussed and admired. He made his mark alright, that Christ loving, existentialist drunkard.

My gosh. Are you aware of how well done your videos are? The phrases chosen, the images placed in the right moment to illustrate what is being said, the thread throughout all the video. Wow, it really impressed me. It feels like an onerous narration of events, I can understand what I'm reading, but even though if I couldn't, the images and words would give to my mind a kind of non-spoken knowledge; a well-transmitted idea. Thanks for doing this

@Eternalised

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

The more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous.

I remember reading this when I was 15 and when I finished it, I was dumbfounded and just stared out my window at night gazing up at the sky for god knows how long and being so out of myself that I didn't talk until I fell asleep. God, Dostoevsky really possesses tremendous power.

I like the connection made between suffering and love

I really appreciate content creators posting their background music in the description. thank you

One of my favorite stories 🌹 Suffering makes you wiser, stronger, and more appreciative of life.

This thumbnail made me read, i’ve just finished it and so glad i did. Always love dostoyevsky’s writing! Now i can watch this video...

thought provoking, good job with the video esse. I enjoyed watching

beautifully explained. Thanks much. Blessings!

I wanted to give ten likes for this video! Thanks for bringing to my attention this great short story. Enjoyed reading it and your video as well.

I am late.. This channel is a jewel

Another brilliant video, as always.

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

This story and notes from the underground are my fav Dostoyevsky short stories. I think they both portray the damaging effects on the psyche that a post enlightenment world has grappled with.

Lovely video, please upload more Dostoevesky books please ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Great explanation

Love your insight.

This was absolutely beautiful

Intriguing story. You told it well.

Good work 📚🤝

Great video. It's fantastic how all the passions of the human being are included in so few pages. I recommend, to complement the reading, the short tale "Earth's Holocaust" by Nathaniel Hawthrone. I love Dostoevsky's works and this is one of the best. He was a great influence for the best writers of Argentine literature.

@reigenlucilfer6154

Жыл бұрын

hi, would you care to tell me the argentine writers that were influenced by dostoevsky? i would love to check them out

@nitsugaparodi8521

Жыл бұрын

Roberto Arlt (Los siete locos, Los lanzallamas) and Ernesto Sábato (El túnel, Sobre héroes y tumbas). Now I don't remember with what name they translated the titles of their works. "Los siete locos" and "Los Lanzallamas" are literally "Demons". And Sabato's works are more similar to "Notes from undergrand" and "The Brothers Karamazov"

Just subscribed!! Great content ☺️👍

LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVVVED IT

A logical explanation to love thy neighbor presented from nihilism what a great short story. It's true that even when you become disillusioned with reality you can't help but continue to feel and long to be apart of something greater, I wonder why this feeling seems to be apart being of being human, is it supposed make us seek out others? But why must it feel so debilitating as well like an unespcapable void?

@bill8383

3 жыл бұрын

the void is the background .. we create from nothing .. we create meaning from and despite the void .. we create life and life is meaning .. and meaning is beautiful .. and that is why we live

@eddybrevet6816

2 жыл бұрын

This feeling is not part of being human, opposite, the answer is I think evident, but there is much holding that back, btw, You already gone?

Keep doing what you are doing. And don't forget me when you have millions of subscribers.

Thank you 🎉

bro this is awesome

I always love your videos

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Rymond!

This reminds me of Robert De Niro's character in 'Taxi Driver' for some reason.

@sealteamsix1784

4 ай бұрын

taxi driver and also the sopranos are dostoevsky AF. they would be considered plagarism if they were released in the 1800s.

9:27 Reminds me of verse in Upanisads: Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence.

Love this video, next the brothers karamazov and grand inquisitor's.

@armandorodriguez5897

3 жыл бұрын

Funny!

No better way to ilústrate great contened then with beautiful art, and in motion and all of what makes this channel grate? Really makes me wonder just how many people on this platform consider themselves and or out lout even claim to be “content creators” Thank you sr. For Not having the need to insert your image anywhere on here as part of the Content of your videos.

One of my favorites of Dostoiévski.

"when I realised I didn't exist all my difficulties and problems disappeared". P. D. Ouspensky, The new model of the universe, chapter four, experimental mysticism. This story of Dostoyevsky's is very similar to Ouspensky's The strange life of Ivan Osokin. Although Ouspensky took it to another level. Noel

@arielrochin2567

2 жыл бұрын

Agree!!....The Existentialist Doestoevsky was not exposed to Theosophy like Gurdjieff and Ouspensky where I think They got the glimpse of TURIYA (The fourth state of consciousness)... I believe

@hermesnoelthefourthway

2 жыл бұрын

@@arielrochin2567 "ariel". The name of Prospero's attendent spirit in The Tempest. Yes, what you say about Dostoyevsky and Co not being subjected to teachings on higher states of consciousness is perfectly true, although I believed they paved the way for it. There are lots of passages in Dostoyevsky's novels which could've come straight out of the writings of Ouspensky. I've just made a film entitled P. D. Ouspensky, The strange life of Ivan Osokin on my channel, which you may find interesting. Cheers, Noel

@arielrochin2567

2 жыл бұрын

I also agree with you..That They paved the way for it.. Political ,spiritual and geographical Environment, Siberian Shamanism, old believers, etc.were influences that contributed for taking to another level....

Do some Tolstoy! Master and Man short collection plz

I didn't know this story, but it kind of reminds me of a short novel by Morselli, titled Dissipatio HG. I don't think there's an English translation, but it's a gem from a sadly underappreciated author

Excellent presentation, as always, a bit dark for my liking, but I guess we need to explore all sides of life in order to understand it a bit better.

@satnamo

3 жыл бұрын

Darkness within darkness is das gateway to all mysteries.

@InspirationFromThePast

3 жыл бұрын

@@satnamo Just as many secrets holds darkness just as many the light has the universe always seeks the balance.

Maxim Gorky needs to be highlighted. I can't find his BOOKS anywhere.

It’s one of my favorites his story

love it

The simplest of all eludes us all.

This deals with the same unnameable fear that runs through Jilly Cooper's darkest novels, 'Riders' in particular.

I really enjoy the art in the video. Is it possible to get a list on what's beeing used? or if maybe someone could just name the names of the artists?

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

There are some art pieces that I frequently use available at my website: eternalisedofficial.com/art The rest of the art I search and adapt it according to the narration :)

Very good video about my favorite author ... one question ... what is the name of the music you use in this video? Greetings from Argentina.

@Eternalised

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The music is: Blue feather Wounded Earnest All by Kevin Macleod. :)

Grade A top notch teacher you are my friend

When things go so dark to the point where you're virtually irredeemable life becomes, oddly enough, bearable

@DizGuys

2 жыл бұрын

What is that supposed to mean? I've been in touch with very dark and hopeless places and it made nothing bearable.

This literally happened to me, slightly different circumstances, and now I'm watching this after 😹

It feels like the US is trying to forget what it is to be human. I wish they had tickets to Europe for indentured servants, but that was a one way ticket, and an old one.

'A ridiculous man' condemns a whole man. Thus, you can dismiss his dream. It's too fantastic. How long ago was this written? A century or two? God bless Russian novelists. I'm all for antidotes to nihilism.

I'm sensing parallels between this and the political climate in the US atm.

The whole story comes across to me as a Christian parable. Starts with the premise that there was a higher state from which men fell and for which they must search, but which cannot be found through science or rational thinking. Men like the author are always looking for a god that is too high up and too far away - looking for a higher meaning in another place when it is right amongst them. We are not the creation of a distant perfect god, we are the product of an unconscious and uncaring process - evolution. Our sole purpose, if it can even be called a purpose - perhaps function is a better word - is to reproduce. That is what we are designed to do, and by doing it we can find the best that life can offer - children. The love and protection and guidance of the next generation is our highest and most rewarding goal - that is the ‘meaning of life’. We are mortal organic beings, no more - the rest is vanity and illusion. There was no perfect state before man acquired self-consciousness, only the dim awareness of the animals we share the Earth with. Yes love thy neighbour and love your children, but you will not see perfect peace. It is the struggle to live that makes those that live strong. Remember the dodo and beware of what you wish for. Edit: Perhaps the Eloi would be a better warning than the dodo?

@miguelbarahona6636

3 жыл бұрын

The story comes to me as an atheist parable, I think. "The conciusness of life is higher than life (science explaining life), the knowledge of happiness is higher than happiness (science, philosophy explaining happiness) - That is what we have to fight against!" Live and be happy.

@NASkeywest

3 жыл бұрын

My God isn’t some far off unattainable connection. Men were made in Gods image and he will dwell within those who follow.

@phildiamond8549

3 жыл бұрын

@@NASkeywest What is your definition of the word 'imsge'?

@gregsaunders3984

3 жыл бұрын

"we are the product of an unconscious and uncaring process - evolution" ".. So have children! Serve your purpose and they, too, will be rewarded with an existence on an inescapable human hamster wheel of consciousness" You have stockholm syndrome bro. If you actually loved your kids you wouldn't think for a second that this world was good enough for them. Notice all your reasons to have kids is to serve YOU. For you to fulfill yourself with love and purpose. Unborn children arent begging for those things, you are. You force them from nothingness because you cant actually deal with the consciousness you claim to be enlightened by. Kids are just tools to people like you. Objects that require attention, alleviating you from being alone with your thoughts. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul." - Jung

@phildiamond8549

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregsaunders3984 Hi Greg, do you have children? Perhaps you do, but you sound like someone who doesn’t.

If you have something that you really want in your life, spend lots of time dreaming about it. The more you dream the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subdreamscious mind doesn't care if your vision is crazy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "dreaming mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by dreamscious effort or dream power. A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond. All sorts of dreams are possible. The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" dreamxperience and an dreamxperience imagined vividly and in detail. Synthesize "experience," to literally create experience, and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. A vision is a very emotional image, the most powerful image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.

Maybe I'm more exhausted than I thought I was but I'm having a little trouble understanding what is meant by ...the knowledge of happiness is higher than happiness. I think it's trying to say that happiness is better, actual happiness, when it is know but the last bit made me question that thought. Is it the opposite or something different?

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

"The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of happiness is higher than happiness - that is what we have to fight against!” Dostoevsky suggests that "the knowledge of happiness", the attempt by science to rationalise and put human feelings into mathematical formulas is bound to end up in disaster, because man is irrational and will get out of his way to prove it. This is a critique of Utilitarianism and rational egoism. I like to think of it as happiness not being the goal, once you try to achieve happiness, you lose sight of it. It is rather a byproduct, consequence of our achievements. Dostoevsky explores this idea more in-depth in Notes from the Underground. Which I highly recommend reading! I have made a video on it as well.

@Eristhenes

3 жыл бұрын

As Morpheus says, "there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

Best

How can I find the artwork used for the video? Is it contemporary russian art?

Ota Benga was a Mbuti man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo.

@a.bagasm.7253

2 жыл бұрын

I am gay

Y en cuanto a aquella niña, todavia la sigo buscando.

Cool.

So indifferent to life or death he can't be bothered to kill himself. Indeed some people really do expect to be happy while others are just accustomed to suffering so you can't really emotionally manipulate them as easily as some others besides it seems more important their emotions are authentic anyway if someone has depressing circumstances being depressed seems like the appropriate response imo so many others will lie to a person they must at least be honest with themselves.

@AnnaLVajda

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite quotes is by Keanu Reeves when reports continually tried to exploit his person tragedies and heartache he said "you need to be happy to live I don't" those who are not spoiled rotten are used to endurance and stoicism it's not a foreign concept for them.

0:04 *1877, for 1817 would mean Dostoevsky wrote it while on the "dream earth" that he talks about in the story. 😄

What is the significance of "The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of happiness is higher than happiness- that is what we have to fight against!"? Is he saying we spend too much time thinking than living and pursuing what could make us more happy instead of being happy in our current state?

"Nihilism? Cringe." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yes, what IS even happiness and love?

What's the painting at 5:38 called?

my idol

Fyodor wasn't known much for guidance counseling.

it could be retitled .. The Dream Of Ridiculous Men. Since there are many many living examples of this character today...

History repeats itself not exactly but in cycles with slight modifications sort of like the butterfly effect

@jesus18peace

2 жыл бұрын

Troll

Dear Eternalised, plz consider correcting the information. The novella was published in (1877), Dostoevsky himself was born in 1821.

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

You're right! Thank you - I have made the necessary modifications.

As above, so below.

I offered him a revel and he'd intriguingly replied who brings you light in darkness.

What is the painting at 8:01?

@Eternalised

2 жыл бұрын

Mario Arteaga - Eternal Love Drawing

Hi im korean. Dostoyevsky is my favorite author. Plz translate this video....plz....

@Eternalised

2 жыл бұрын

I have added Korean automatic subtitles!

@user-vq6kh1kl6j

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eternalised thank you! Im 16years old and i read the brothers karamazov now. but this book so hard to me. Plz afterwards make a video karamazov???

@kayo5011

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vq6kh1kl6j I think he has videos

Have you done one about Pessoa?

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

Haven't heard about Pessoa yet!

@AragonaAlessandro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eternalised What? Fernando Pessoa.... that s odd, look him up. not a philosopher

@arielrochin2567

2 жыл бұрын

Yess!... Pessoa the Flaneur!!....Check it out!

i have always thought knowledge of happiness is the first step towards it and consciousness about life is important if we want to value it in others, removing self centeredness. now im confused

@Eristhenes

3 жыл бұрын

Knowledge is great; but knowledge for the sake of knowledge is vanity. Knowledge which is applied with love and shared becomes wisdom. Wisdom will lead us to the heart of a thing, happiness or otherwise. I guess one might say it is not knowledge per se, which is important but living, which in itself is a form of knowledge.

@endo4682

2 жыл бұрын

Don't let knowledge be the only step.

"Published in 1817..." I also tend to push for my work to punished three years earlier than my birth.

🙏👌

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Painters and their works?

Wow

Its not time yet

Well, that man certainly was ridiculous.

I thank you ❣️ I didn't know this short story and it comes at the right moment as I am contemplating suicide from a radical prospective.

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you feel better. ♥️

@AragonaAlessandro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eternalised when?

@Eternalised

3 жыл бұрын

@@AragonaAlessandro When you find the purpose to your existence. Be with your good friends and family. But let your thoughts out. Most importantly, have confidence in a professional therapist. The question of one's meaning is individual and cannot be rushed to a conclusion.

@AragonaAlessandro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eternalised I honestly prefer the company of the authors that populate your channel and of videos like your once...family and friends do not hold much meaning for me anymore, they are part of the act and its background. I appreciate your channel very much, thank you.

@AragonaAlessandro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eternalised p.s. there's no purpose in this existence (see Advaita Vedanta), I am not searching anymore.

Faith does not comes from miracles because miracle is de result of having faith. De knight of faith is a dancer with high elevation. 5555+feet beyond man and time I live and grow against das world And harvest what they cannot take from me with swords and fire.

@jesus18peace

2 жыл бұрын

Troll

Killing oneself is not being indifferent.

Obviously people were too bored in the 19th century, probably especially in Russia or German.

😵‍💫

If my ransom is it met I’m going to actually Swallow every single pill in my cabinet makes it with my Baja blast and then smoke a blunt waiting for my eternal demise “If a tree falls and no one hears it did it really make a sound”

Do something for somebody quick.

ну а что ты хотел

Ahh ha!! He’s referring to the ego, to the false identification with the mind and body. The birth of “I” was the birth of sin and all malevolence as depicted in the story of Adam and Eve. Before the Ego (edging God out) befell Adam we where in harmony with our inherent nature no different then the trees, the birds and all other living things which flow in harmony without the false identity of “self”. We where the pure expression of God, selfless and loving because we had no false need for self preservation, we where as children full of light. “I told them that (I) alone was responsible for it all- (I) alone; that it was (I) who had brought them to corruption, contamination, and lies!”. In regards to our failure to love our neighbor as ourself; “and yet it is an old truth, a truth that has been TOLD over and over again, but in spite of that it finds no place among men!” This is because language is a man made construct and requires the intellect which can never be real truth, but because we identify with it here’s the result; “the ‘consciousness’ of life is higher then life, the ‘knowledge’ of happiness is higher then happiness.” This is summed up perfectly by one of my favorite quotes by another enlightened individual: “It is like a finger (knowledge) pointing a way to the moon, don’t focus on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory (truth).” -Bruce Lee All of these teachings from Guru’s, philosophers, the Bible, the Tao te ching etc. are all fingers pointing to that which can’t be spoken. We have to go within ourselves to realize it else we use our intellect and by doing so will always miss the mark and remain in illusion though our minds tell us otherwise. We are the awareness of thought and all things perceived, we are the only constant and one with the creator. The thought of the whole world waking up to this is the most beautiful thing I could possibly imagine. But it can’t be taught, only realized and expressed!