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Advaita

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[uhd-vahy-tuh] / ədˈvaɪ tə /

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.


Etymology

Origin of Advaita

From Sanskrit

Example Sentences

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In San Francisco, a fellow musician gave her a book on Advaita Vedanta, a tradition that embraces all faiths as equally valid.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2022

“Something as intense as the music led me to Advaita Vedanta,” she explained.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2022

She darted among the shelves and offered nutshell biographies of the Holy Trio, sacred figures in her discipline of Advaita Vedanta.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2022

This documentary about his humble ashram takes us inside to meet his followers in the study of Advaita Vedanta, an ancient Hindu philosophy of oneness.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016

But, as I say, and as I repeat, what in it might have done harm in India had it been left alone was prevented by the coming of the great Teacher of the Advaita.

From Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 by Besant, Annie Wood

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