ADVAITA Definition & Meaning

Advaita

[ uhd-vahy-tuh ]

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noun

Hinduism.

one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance. Compare dvaita ( def 2 ).

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Advaita¹

From Sanskrit

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She darted among the shelves and offered nutshell biographies of the Holy Trio, sacred figures in her discipline of Advaita Vedanta.

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In San Francisco, a fellow musician gave her a book on Advaita Vedanta, a tradition that embraces all faiths as equally valid.

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“Something as intense as the music led me to Advaita Vedanta,” she explained.

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Mahavira founded Jainism; Shankara came up with the monist philosophy known as Advaita Vedanta; Guru Nanak inaugurated Sikhism.

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He took a room in a modest hotel and went to daily satsangs, spiritual discussions, at the apartment of Ramesh Balsekar, a former president of the Bank of India and a teacher of Advaita Vedanta, a Hindu discipline.

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adv.ad val.

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