Tradition
Neo-Advaita
Overview
Neo-Advaita, also called the Satsang-movement, is a new religious movement, emphasizing the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego," without the need of preparatory practice. Its teachings are derived from, but not authorised by, the teachings of the 20th century sage Ramana Maharshi, as interpreted and popularized by H. W. L. Poonja and several of his western students.
It is part of a larger religious current called immediatism by Arthur Versluis, which has its roots in both western and eastern spirituality. Western influences are western esoteric traditions like Transcendentalism, and "New Age millennialism, self-empowerment and self-therapy".
Neo-Advaita makes little use of the "traditional language or cultural frames of Advaita Vedanta", and some have criticised it for its lack of preparatory training, and regard enlightenment-experiences induced by Neo-Advaita as superficial.
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To cover all the practical-social-æsthetic values involved, the term "thought" has to be so stretched that the situation might as well be called by any other name that describes a typical value of experience. More specifically, when the difference is minimized between the organized and arranged scheme of values out of which reflective inquiry proceeds, and reflective inquiry itself (and there can be no other reason…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
States what Neo-Advaita is.
The Idea is not a particular thing, which might have another content than reality or appear quite different. The opposition is the merely formal opposition of possibility and actuality; the active impelling substance and the product are the same. This realization goes right through the opposition; the negative in the universal is just this process.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Neo-Advaita is.
For religion is just this universal domain[184], in virtue of which the _one_ concrete totality of the World comes to each man in union with himself, as his essential substance, while it remains no less for consciousness the essential truth of Nature. And it is this profounder truth of the Real which alone proves itself invincible over all that is merely particular and finite, being as it is the one absolute harmony…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
States what Neo-Advaita is.
Related ideas
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Sudden awakening
- Transcendentalism
- The Perennial Philosophy
- Bhakti
- Moksha
- Ken Wilber
- Theosophical Society
- Perennial philosophy
- New religious movement
- Brahman
- New Age
- Platonism
- Buddhist modernism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Structuralism
- Spirituality
- Ramana Maharshi
- Advaita Vedanta
- Zen
- Neo-Vedanta
- Peter L. Berger
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Swami Vivekananda
Place in the tradition
Part of Nondualism.