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Pronunciation: [vɛdˈantə] (IPA)

Vedanta is an ancient Indian philosophy that deals with the ultimate reality of existence and the relationship between the individual self (Atman) and the supreme self (Brahman). Synonyms for the word Vedanta include Advaita Vedanta, Shankara Vedanta, Upanishads, and Brahma Sutras. Advaita Vedanta is a non-dualistic philosophy that emphasizes the oneness of Atman and Brahman. Shankara Vedanta, named after the philosopher Adi Shankara, also focuses on non-dualism and the concept of Maya, or illusion. Upanishads are a collection of texts that form the basis of Vedanta philosophy, while Brahma Sutras provide logical arguments to support the teachings of Vedanta.

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"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont
What code of Pantheism, French or German, can be said to equal the mystic dreams of the Vedanta School?
"Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws"
James Buchanan
The Vedanta philosophy is based on this fundamental principle, and it has been well described as "the most rigorous system of Pantheism which has ever appeared."
"Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws"
James Buchanan

Famous quotes with Vedanta

  • The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
    Swami Vivekananda
  • Sri Aurobindo, for one, insisted on the radically different spirit in Sikhism as compared with Islam: 'Those ways of Indian cult which most resemble a popular form of Theism, are still something more; for they do not exclude, but admit the many aspects of God. (...) The later religious forms which most felt the impress of the Islamic idea, like Nanak's worship of the timeless One, Akla, and the reforming creeds of today, born under the influence of the West, yet draw away from the limitations of western or Semitic monotheism. Irresistibly they turn from these infantile conceptions towards the fathomless truth of Vedanta.' (Sri Aurobindo: Foundations of Indian Culture, p.135)
    Koenraad Elst
  • If we look deeply into such ways of life as Buddhism and Taoism, Vedanta and Yoga, we do not find either philosophy or religion as these are understood in the West. We find something more nearly resembling psychotherapy. … The main resemblance between these Eastern ways of life and Western psychotherapy is in the concern of both with bringing about changes of consciousness, changes in our ways of feeling our own existence and our relation to human society and the natural world. The psychotherapist has, for the most part, been interested in changing the consciousness of peculiarly disturbed individuals. The disciplines of Buddhism and Taoism are, however, concerned with changing the consciousness of normal, socially adjusted people.
    Alan Watts
  • The prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religions of the East — in particular the central and germinal Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism.
    Alan Watts
  • So, too, in the Vedanta the whole world is seen as the lila and the maya of the Self, the first word meaning "play" and the second having the complex sense of illusion (from the Latin ludere, to play), magic, creative power, art, and measuring—as when one dances or draws a design to a certain measure. From this point of view the universe in general and playing in particular are, in a special sense, "meaningless": that is, they do not—like words and symbols—signify or point to something beyond themselves, just as a Mozart sonata conveys no moral or social message and does not try to suggest the natural sounds of wind, thunder, or birdsong.
    Alan Watts

Semantically related words: Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism and Vedanta, Mahay

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