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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