Advaita Vedanta is the culmination of Hindu thought. This philosophy stems directly from the experiences of great mystics Indo-Aryan that 4,000 years later wrote the Vedas and the Upanishads. Vedanta means precisely adhering to the genuine teaching of the Vedas, while Advaita means' non-dualist. " The first codification of this doctrine was about Shankara in 800 AD.
Recall that in Hinduism the term indicates the individual soul, Atman, Brahman, and the term indicates the supreme principle, without any form or definition ("neti, neti" that is "not this, not this).
Advaita Vedanta proclaims simply the identity of Atman with Brahman and the illusion of the whole world of sense: both the phenomenal universe, our consciousness and bodily being, that our experiences are actually illusory. Man's task is to break the illusory veil of Maya and awareness of this identity (lighting).
man, therefore, the Advaita Vedanta, is just like the prisoner of the "Myth of cave "by Plato, who swaps the shadows on the wall to the reality away from light and immersed in the shadows of a pseudo.
The Rishis (sages Hindu ascetics) retreated alone into the forest to meditate and get the awareness of ' identity of Atman and Brahman. The results of their experiences are exactly the Vedas: "Tat tvam asi," You're the one, says the Upanishad Chandogya written 1000 years before Christ to the comment of the Veda.
600 years before Christ Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha for the first time made public the path to enlightenment that so many Hindus consider genuine Hinduism to Buddhism as a heresy, but on this we would be very to discuss.
report some very significant steps taken from the Upanishads, on Advaita Vedanta:
"This supreme Brahman, the universal atman, huge house with everything that exists, anything thinner than thin, steady: in truth and yourself, for Thou art That "(Kaivalya Upanishad, I, 16).
"When it is known the supreme atman, which rests in a hidden place, without parties and without duality, as a witness, and being free from non-being, the atman reaches the universal condition" ( Kaivalya Upanishad II, 23-24).
"This Atman is not can be learned through teaching, nor by sacrifice, nor by many lessons ... This Atman is not attainable for one who lacks determination, that it divests itself to illusions, or performs an illegal asceticism. "(Mundaka Upanishad, III, II, 3 and 4).
" He who knows that supreme Brahman, that he becomes the Brahman "(Mundaka Upanishad, III, II, 9).
" Through the mere study of the scriptures or the scholarship can not be realized Atman, nor by the intellectual debates and classroom "(Katha Upanishad, I, II, 23).
" The wise, having studied the treaties of religious and secular knowledge, desert such treaties, as one who leaves the skin looking for the seed "(Brahmabindù Upanishad, 18).
" We must stop the mind in the heart until it is not possible to silence this condition is the true knowledge and liberation, everything else is merely wordy literature "(Brahmabindù Upanishad, 5).
" Yes, I know only the sacred texts, venerable master, but I do not know what the Self (Atman ). By great masters like you I have learned that the man who knows the Self beyond all pain. I am in a state of pain. Want to please a revered master, to let me pass all pain "(Chandogya Upanishad, VII, I, 3).
" Everything you study is not a set of words "(Chandogya Upanishad, VII, I, 3).
" In a frightful darkness enter those who live in ignorance and darkness even worse those who have only a theoretical knowledge "(Svetasvara Upanishad, IV, IV, 10).
" It is through knowledge that we will reach more than the casual. Science reveals to us the divine knowledge of the reality that transcends the senses, it reveals the principle, the uncaused cause of all, the One who has no form or name "(Mundaka Upanishad, I, I, 6).
"Without sound, formless, intangible, not decay, without taste and smell, without beginning or end, immutable, eternal, transcending all nature, ineffable. Those who can make it, and they only, are free from the jaws of death "(Katha Upanishad, I, III, 15).
"Reality, Knowledge, Infinite is Brahman. In the world of perishable things: name, form, time, space, causality, one that does not perish is the Imperishable. He that abideth forever even beyond the name, form of time-space and causality, and that is designated by the word that, he named the supreme Atman. I can not be seen in the forms of space, the breath of life and other restrictions. They are free form, the name and action. I am Brahman, the fact of existence, consciousness and bliss. This is the Real Science "(Sarvasara Upanishad).
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