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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vedanta \Ve*dan"ta\, n. [Skr. V[=e]danta.]
A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered
texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the ``Anta,'' or end or
substance.
--Balfour (Cyc. of India.)
Wikipedia
Vedanta ( IAST, , Sanskrit: वेदांत) or Uttara Mīmāṃsā is one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of Indian Philosophy. The term "Vedānta" does not stand for one comprehensive doctrine. It stands for the divergent philosophical views that developed on the basis of the common textual connection of the Prasthanatrayi - which is the collective term for the Principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita.
There are at least ten schools of Vedanta, of which Advaita (Non-Dualist), Vishishtadvaita (Non-Dualism of the Qualified), and Dvaita (Dualist) are best known. Most other Vedantic traditions are regarded as belonging to the Bhedabheda (difference and non-difference) tradition.
All the Vedanta schools, in their deliberations, concern themselves with the following three categories but differ in their views regarding the relation between the three:
- Brahman – the unchanging ultimate metaphysical reality
- Atman / Jivatma – the individual soul or self
- Prakriti – The empirical world, ever-changing physical universe, body and matter
In addition to the Prasthanatrayi, Vedanta adopted ideas from other schools of Hinduism such as Yoga and Nyaya, and, over time, became the most prominent school of Hinduism, influencing traditions such as Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism.
Vedanta can refer to:
- The Hindu philosophy, Vedanta
- Upanishads
- The mining and minerals group, Vedanta Resources
- The university, Vedanta University
Usage examples of "vedanta".
The highest Vedic teaching is the nondual, nonjudgmental Advaita Vedanta.
In the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta, Atma is believed to be non-different from Brahman, the ultimate reality of the universe.
Then he read the Bible, the Koran, and other major religious works: he covered Islam, Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism, Zarathustrianism, Dharma, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinayana, Mahayana, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism and Confucianism.
The Vedanta and Nyaya philosophers acknowledge a Supreme Eternal Being, and the immortality of the soul: though, like the Greeks, they differ in their ideas of those subjects.
But the reader is also referred to the many books centering on other notable voices of Vedanta, such as Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharishi, Paramahansa Yogananda, J.
In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.
Vedanta and Vijnanavada identify the absolute with something that is experienced in some form even empiricallythe Vedanta with Pure Being which is Atman and the Vijnanavada with Consciousness.
Fichte, apparently, intuited only glimmers of this profound openness, which is why I also refer to most Western Vedanta as "half-baked.
But not only the extraordinary flowering of Mahayana and Vajrayana rests on Nagarjuna's shoulders: his dialectic was a major influence on Shankara, Vedanta's greatest philosopher-sage (Ramana Maharshi being one of Shankara's many descendants), and Shankara's Nondual (Advaita) Vedanta revolutionized all of subsequent Indian philosophy/religion (so similar was it in many respects to Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka that Buddhism simply died out in India, being almost, as it were, reabsorbed in essentials back into Hinduism).