Advaita Vedānta Philosophy: a short introduction

Itay Shani, Susanne Kathrin Beiweis (eds.) (2023), Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness. Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality. London, New York, Dublin: Bloomsbury.

International Journal of Social Science And Human Research, 2022

In India the philosophers, except the Madhyamika Buddhists and Jayarasi Bhatta, maintain that determination of an object depends on a pramana, a source of cognition. Similarly, pramana depends on prameya padhartha. In the present paper I will deal with the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics from the Advaita point of view. According to Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is the only highest reality. It does never get contradicted. Brahman is sat-cit-ananda i.e. Eternal Existence, Eternal Consciousness and Eternal Bliss. The three aspects -sot, cit and ananda- constitute the essence of Brahman. Brahman is unknown and unknowable. All sources of cognitions [pramana-s) fail to cognize Brahman. It is avanmanasagacara. The nature of Brahman can be explained through the methods of adhyaropa and apavoda. Advaita Vedanta does not admit any relationship between pramiti and Brahman from the higher standpoint. The teachers of Advaita Vedanta hold that the relationship between a pramana and a...

The present paper provides an analytical study of truth in Advaita Vedānta and its sources. It tries to present the connection between Advaita tradition with the thought of Nāgārjuna and other Madhyamic successors with historical references. This paper explores how the hermeneutical approaches in both traditions are so close with respect to the terms and implications. It also attempts to discover the doctrinal unanimity between these two traditions and present some deviations as well. The paper is entirely based on the concept of truth [satya] of Advaita Vedānta and Mādhyamika School. Finally, it comes to the conclusion putting forth the findings on account of truth and its significance in Advaitic tradition.

History of Indian Philosophy, 2018

The authors of the Brāhmaṇa texts enriched their view of the Vedic rituals through building unique theories of identification and connection that served to establish a notion of shared being between the sacrificer, the sacrifice, and the cosmos itself. In exploring identifications that were not immediately available to the senses (but were said to be "mysterious"), these thinkers set the groundwork for later Indian speculation, as seen in particular in the Upaniṣads, the texts which follow them. Although long underappreciated by students of the Indian tradition, the Brāhmaṇas represent a rich source for understanding the beginnings of Indian philosophy.

Anthropology of religion ejournal , 2017

Advaita aka Advaita Vedānta is an ancient Indian theological school which provides the basis and context for this paper. Objective : ( a ) Construction of the non - dualist doctrine Atman = Brahman [ A = B ] within the framework of dependency and subject - object duality, ( b ) Establishing the principles of equanimous equality, reflective reciprocity, and the freedom of conscionable actions as the empirical connectives of this doctrine based on Upaniṣhads and Bhagavadgītā – de facto primary source of the Hindu - Vedic theology, (c) Extending these connectives to the principle of neutrality and then to the distributive justice within Rawlsian framework, ( d ) Exploring the applicability of A = B and the ‘interdependent origination’ to the socio-popitical structures and the ecology in general.

Prabuddha Bharata, 2020

inherence are the most important for their defeat of the Nyaya-Vaisheshika ontological system. By attacking inherence, the Advaitins not only show that inherence fails to explain the relations between the various ontic categories but they also demonstrate that inherence does not help prove distinctness, but rather that the Vaisheshika philosophers already assume distinctness in positing inherence. The category of inherence is the keystone category that provides a sort of ontic glue by which the other distinct categories are combined or related. If the category of inherence fails to sufficiently explain how the various ontological categories are related, the edifice of the Realist's ontology collapses.