advaita
अद्वैत advaitaNon-dualism; the school of Vedanta systematised by Shankara, holding that atman and brahman are one undivided reality and that all plurality is appearance (maya).
Where this term appears
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
The great utterances The later tradition, and Advaita Vedanta especially, distilled this into a handful of short sentences it calls mahavakyas , "great utterances." Four of them are usually named, one drawn fro…
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
Shankara, the eighth-century master of Advaita , non-dualism (his dates are debated, commonly placed around 700 to 750 of the Common Era, traditionally 788 to 820), wrote the earliest surviving complete comment…
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
In Sanskrit, the Adhyatma Ramayana , dated roughly to the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, retold the story as a vehicle for Advaita Vedanta philosophy, reading Rama as the absolute and Sita as his power.
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
…each of the four Vedas, is a later systematization, worked out in the Advaita tradition associated with Shankara and the Dashanami monastic order.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
The schools then diverge: the most uncompromising of the non-dual readings is Advaita Vedanta, one interpretation of these shared texts among several.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The Advaita reading treats the whole map as vyāvahārika , true at the everyday level and dissolving under analysis.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
Whether as the non-dual absolute of Advaita or the personal Lord of the theistic schools, there is a highest reality at the centre.
- Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic? Essentials
At one end stands monism , most rigorously in Advaita Vedanta: there is only one reality, Brahman, and the appearance of many separate things and selves is finally provisional.