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Vedanta
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Consciousness is fundamental, not produced by the brain
Advaita Vedanta holds that consciousness is the one reality, and the material world appears within it. In recent years, several philosophers in the analytic tradition have defended views in the same family:…
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Shankara’s rope and snake: what kind of “unreality” is maya?
The most famous image in Advaita Vedanta: at dusk a man sees a rope and takes it for a snake. He is frightened, he may even run. When a lamp is brought,…
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Reading group: the Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada’s Karika
The Māṇḍūkya is the shortest of the principal Upanishads, only twelve verses. It analyses the syllable AUM in terms of four "quarters" of the self: the waking state (vaiśvānara), the dream state…
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Can someone explain Ramanuja’s Vishishtadvaita fairly, from an Advaitin’s point of view?
I have read Shankara for decades and I confess I have never given Rāmānuja the attention he deserves. My Vaishnava friends tell me I misrepresent him whenever I speak about him. So…
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Adi Shankara
Indian philosopher and teacher from Kerala who gave Advaita (non-dual) Vedanta its classical form through commentaries on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the…