Atman, in context of Advaita Vedanta- a review
| Vol-3 | Issue-09 | September 2018 | Published Online: 07 September 2018 PDF ( 149 KB ) | ||
| Author(s) | ||
| Purnima Ghosh 1 | ||
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1Department of philosophy, Nabagram Hiralal Paul College, Nabagram, Hooghly, West Bengal India (Affiliated to Calcutta University) |
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| Abstract | ||
The study endeavors to introduce the idea of satisfaction from the point of view of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism), a sub-school of the Hindu philosophy dependent on Upanishads (sacred writings) which are the closing bits of the Vedas (uncovered writings). Created in a multi-faceted strict and philosophical scene, Advaita hypothetically demands that jiva or the individual self is characteristically delighted in nature and that it is generally the same as Brahman (The Supreme Self). It recommends that nothing can be added or deducted to deliver the jiva euphoric or hopeless. The hypothesis of non-dualism is earnest in its conviction that man is invested with an inborn nature of being (sat), cognizance (chit) and unalloyed satisfaction (ananda): he has just to search inside to acknowledge experientially that the jiva is an exemplification of the macrosmic presence. Declining to depend only on theoretical theory, Advaita resorts to thinking and scriptural position to come to an end result that the exemplified self is basically the Supreme Self. It reasons that joy or happiness is man's inborn quality and that it isn't accumulated from outside one's self. Looking for joy outside is man's misled exertion at looking for happiness inside. |
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| Keywords | ||
| Atman, Vedanta, Happiness | ||
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