mardi 14 février 2017

Knowing More About Non-Duality

By Alxa Robin


Non-dualism or Advaita is one of the oldest Indian Philosophy. It is known to have its origin in the eight century and teachings were then given by Sri Shanaracharya; however Advaita philosophy has been followed since the end of Vedic age.

Advaita tells us that everything that exists is one, no one is different from one another and is somehow connected and this oneness is named as a Brahman. The subject and the object are connected to one another in some way and everything that exists without differentiating them is nothing but Brahman. Advaita tells us that there is no other existence other than Brahman.

You can consider an example for this like our fingers and hands. Each finger present in our hand is somewhat different from the other; however each of them comes from the same hand. Similar to this everything that you know exists around you it may be the animals, people and nature and so on, they shall look different to you but everything has made its existence from the same source.

However you can find sages and saints that come from different backgrounds and agree to their experience of non-duality. Even the founders of the several religions, where known to be sages and they believed non-duality being the only fundamental that connects different individual. It is the base or foundation on which all the religions have made their existence.

Irrespective of the state of the candle the matter and energy remained constant and it is the only reality. It has been found that there is something absolute in the forms of matter and energy too. Similarly, there shall be a basic reality between all the ever-changing phenomena of the world.

Advaita does differ from the Vishista-Dvaita, the humans and the universe are considered to be real, but as a part of the God, in Vishista-Dvaita. Moreover in Advaita Vedanta, neither the universe nor the individual consciousness is considered to be real and it is the Oneness at the base. Being precise, the base of the universe and the individual's consciousness is what is real.

When you consider the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, there is no reality for the creation or divine intervention. The only known reality is the principle of oneness and from it comes the reality of the world and it might not exist without it. The world is the result of the contraction and expansion of the universe and this is a natural cycle that cannot be controlled nor worked at will.

Irrespective of the continuous flow of our individual consciousness, there is something very absolute that keeps it all together. According to Advaita, it makes the final conclusion that there can be only one Absolute in the universe and the Absolute that lies as the base of our consciousness is the same Absolute that lies at the base of the phenomena of the universe.




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