Advaita

[ uhd-vahy-tuh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance. Compare dvaita ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Advaita¹

From Sanskrit

Example Sentences

Non-differentiation (Advaita ) is the root attitude of the mind inculcated.

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This sounds a topsy turvy argument but it is really the same as the Advaita doctrine.

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Many scholars, both Indian and European, will demur to the high place here assigned to the Advaita philosophy.

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But still the main features of the later Advaita, or philosophy of no duality, are there.

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In fact the Advaita philosophy countenances emotional theism only as an imperfect creed and not as the highest truth.

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