Advaita Vedanta Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Etymology=== The word '''Advaita''' is a composite of two Sanskrit words: * Prefix "a-" (अ), meaning "non-" * "Dvaita" (द्वैत), which means 'duality' or 'dualism'.<ref group=web name="EB_Dvaita"/> ''Advaita'' is often translated as "non-duality," but a more apt translation is "non-secondness."{{sfn|Menon|2012}} ''Advaita'' has several meanings: * Nonduality of subject and object{{sfn|Loy|1988}}{{sfn|Reddy Juturi|2021}}<ref group=web name="Tao"/> As Gaudapada states, when a distinction is made between subject and object, people grasp to objects, which is ''samsara''. By realizing one's true identity as ''Brahman'', there is no more grasping, and the mind comes to rest.{{sfn|Reddy Juturi|2021}} * Nonduality of Atman and Brahman, the famous diction of Advaita Vedanta that Atman is not distinct from Brahman; the knowledge of this identity is liberating. * Monism: there is no other reality than ''Brahman'', that "Reality is not constituted by parts," that is, ever-changing 'things' have no existence of their own, but are appearances of the one Existent, Brahman; and that there is in reality no duality between the "experiencing self" (''jiva'') and ''Brahman'', the Ground of Being.{{refn|group=note|name=Brahman}} The word ''Vedānta'' is a composition of two Sanskrit words: The word [[Vedas|Veda]] refers to the whole corpus of vedic texts, and the word "anta" means 'end'. From this, one meaning of ''Vedānta'' is "the end of the Vedas" or "the ultimate knowledge of the Vedas". ''Veda'' can also mean "knowledge" in general, so ''Vedānta'' can be taken to mean "the end, conclusion or finality of knowledge". [[Vedanta|Vedānta]] is one of six orthodox schools of [[Hindu philosophy]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page