Mantras in Advaita Vedanta | Function and Meaning
Posted onMantras as used in Hinduism and Buddhism are sacred sounds, utterances, words, short prayers, or sentences in the Sanskrit language, [ Read more … ]
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Mantras as used in Hinduism and Buddhism are sacred sounds, utterances, words, short prayers, or sentences in the Sanskrit language, [ Read more … ]
In this post, we’ll discuss the Sanskrit terms Vyakti, Vyakta, and Avyakta and their contextual use in Advaita Vedanta. Vyakti [ Read more … ]
The need of having a spiritual teacher is one of the big questions within Advaita Vedanta. So, to attain Spiritual [ Read more … ]
Ishvara — also written as Ishwara — can have a wide range of interpretations in Hinduism depending on the religious [ Read more … ]
The idea of the Absolute is present in all spiritual and philosophical traditions of India, although often widely differently interpreted. [ Read more … ]
One of the questions that arises for a person who’s interested in Advaita Vedanta is how to find the right [ Read more … ]
What exactly the characteristics are of the Jnani — the spiritual enlightened one — is a question often asked by [ Read more … ]
The idea of Karma (or the Law of Karma) in Hinduism involves action, work, or deeds, and the effects or [ Read more … ]
The Sanskrit word Maya in the religious and spiritual sense can mean illusion, delusion, unreality, trick, earthly ignorance, phantasm, attachment, [ Read more … ]
One of the tenets of Neo-Advaita — and in a broader sense all nondual practices such as Zen Buddhism, Advaita [ Read more … ]