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A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism

Vedānta

(‘end of the Veda’) a designation for the as the last portion of the sacred scriptures of the Veda recognized in Hinduism as divine revelation (śruti), which may also be understood in the sense that they are divinely inspired or derived from inner experience of the ultimate divine reality on the part of those who produced them; also: a designation for the philosophy derived from thought. The main message of Vedānta is the essential identity between the self and the divine source of the world which is, in a popularized form (‘the Divine or God dwells in everybody and in everything’), the most widespread view of the world among Hindus.

In the context of systematic Indian thought it is one of the six ‘orthodox’ doctrinal traditions of Hindu philosophy, also called Uttara , There are three main schools within the Vedāntic tradition itself (and a few minor schools or subschools), with three main protagonists: Advaita or non-dual school , Advaita or ‘qualified’ non-dual teaching (Rāmānuja) and Dvaita or the school of dualism (Madhva). But even Madhva accepted the dependence on God of the world and of all beings. All three protagonists used extensively (and often rather selectively) quotations from the in trying to prove the correctness of their respective stances.

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VedāNta from A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism. ISBN: 0-203-98618-0. Published: 2005–05–30. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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