advaita vedant | अद्वैत वेदान्त
Advait vedanta (Devanagari: अद्वैत वेदान्त ISO15919: advaita vedānta ) is the philosophy of non-dualism.
This is one of the philosophies of advaita . The primary Acharya and propagator of this school of philosophy is Adi Jagadguru Shri Shankaracharya.
This is also called Mayavada .
According to this doctrine there is only one entity - Brahm . He is impersonal, unknowable and unperceivable. Jiva is no different from Brahm . When Brahm is overcome with ajnana then Brahm is called jiva. The jnani can overcome this ajnana by meditating on the the Vedic mahavakya.
Followers of this school of philosophy propagated many other sub-philosophies. Some of them being vivarta vada , drista-dristi-vaad, avichchhed-vaad, bimb-partibimp vada , agyata-vaad.
Also written as advait vedanta , advait vedant .
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