Neo-Advaita, also called the Satsang-movement is a new religious movement, emphasizing the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego...
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Bhakti-oriented religiosity. In modern times, Advaita views appear in various Neo-Vedānta movements. The word Advaita is a composite of two Sanskrit words: Prefix...
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term "Neo-Vedanta" was coined by German Indologist Paul Hacker, in a pejorative way, to distinguish modern developments from "traditional" Advaita Vedanta...
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Nondualism (section Neo-Advaita)
According to Anil Sooklal, Vivekananda's neo-Advaita "reconciles Dvaita or dualism and Advaita or non-dualism": The Neo-Vedanta is also Advaitic inasmuch as...
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Indian religion. Several Neo-Vedanta movements and teachers, most notably the Ramakrishna Order, trace their roots to Advaita Vedanta, while the Inchegeri...
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Anthony Paul Moo-Young, January 29, 1954) is a Jamaican spiritual teacher of Advaita based in the UK and Portugal. He gives talks (satsang) and conducts retreats...
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
the most prominent spokesmen of Neo-Vedanta. His metaphysics was grounded in Advaita Vedanta, but he reinterpreted Advaita Vedanta for a contemporary understanding...
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Ramana Maharshi (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
revival of Theravada Buddhism. See also Timothy Conway, Neo-Advaita or Pseudo-Advaita and Real Advaita-Nonduality David Godman: "Because some of the interpreters...
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Ramakrishna (category Neo-Advaita)
practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as Christianity and Islam. He advocated the essential...
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Swami Vivekananda (category Neo-Vedanta)
transcendent. According to Anil Sooklal, Vivekananda's neo-Vedanta "reconciles Dvaita or dualism and Advaita or non-dualism," viewing Brahman as "one without...
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Advaita Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism share significant similarities. Those similarities have attracted Indian and Western scholars attention, and have...
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Gaudapada (section Chapter Three: Nonduality (Advaita))
Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are...
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Adi Shankara (section Systematizer of Advaita)
ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ]), was an Indian Vedic scholar, philosopher and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta. Reliable information on Shankara's actual life is scanty, and...
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H. W. L. Poonja (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
"Poonjaji" or "Papaji" /ˈpɑːpɑːdʒi/ by devotees. He was a key figure in the Neo-Advaita movement. At the age of eight, he claimed he had experienced an unusual...
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Andrew (1998), Jivanmukti in Transformation: Embodied Liberation in Advaita and Neo-Vedanta, State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-0791439043 Fort...
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Brahman (section Advaita Vedanta)
different from Atman (Self) in each being. In non-dual schools such as the Advaita Vedanta, the substance of Brahman is identical to the substance of Atman...
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of the GNOME Desktop Environment Advaita Ashrama Kashmir Shaivism Neo-Advaita Neo-Vedanta Nondualism Shiva Advaita This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Koan Introspection, Wisdom Publications Jacobs, Alan (2004), "Advaita and Western Neo-Advaita", The Mountain Path Journal: 81–88, archived from the original...
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a French author, spiritual teacher and philosopher of Nondualism and Neo-Advaita. According to Jean Klein, it is only in a "spontaneous state of interior...
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to Shiva. Throughout his life, Mahaperiyava breathed and practised the Advaita philosophy of his guru, Adi Shankaracharya, the great Hindu philosopher...
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various Neo-Vedānta movements. The historiography of Advaita Vedanta is coloured by Orientalist notions, while modern formulations of Advaita Vedānta...
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Self-realization (section Advaita Vedanta)
"frying the seeds of karma" is often used) Ātman is the first principle in Advaita Vedanta, along with its concept of Brahman, with Atman being the perceptible...
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Vedanta (section Advaita Vedanta)
Vedanta include Neo-Vedanta, and the philosophy of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. Most major Vedanta schools, except Advaita Vedanta and Neo-Vedanta, are related...
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Robert Adams (spiritual teacher) (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) was an American Advaita teacher. In later life Adams held satsang with a small group of devotees in California...
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Rupert Spira (category Neo-Advaita)
Dr Francis Roles (himself a student of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff and the Advaita Vedanta teacher Swami Shantananda Saraswati). In tandem with his life as...
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Vācaspati Miśra), was a ninth or tenth century Indian Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, who wrote bhashya (commentaries) on key texts of almost...
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Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian guru and spiritual leader. He is also referred to as Sri Sri or Gurudev. From around the mid 1970s, he worked...
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Mahāvākyas (redirect from Tat tvam asi: advaita interpretation)
महावाक्यानि) are "The Great Sayings" of the Upanishads, as characterized by the Advaita school of Vedanta with mahā meaning great and vākya, a sentence. Most commonly...
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Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher) (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
claimed that Poonja declared him his heir, so Cohen began to teach as a neo-Advaita teacher, and gathered a community around him. However Cohen only spent...
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Jnana yoga (section Classical Advaita Vedanta)
contemporay Advaita Vedanta and neo-Vedanta incorporate meditation, Adi Shankara relied on insight alone, based on the Mahavakya. Neo-Advaita also emphasizes...
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