Concept
Vedanta
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one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
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Hitherto we have observed the abstract principles; the following is to be noticed regarding the creation of the concrete actuality of the universe. The bodily creation consists of the soul habited in a material body; it comprehends eight orders of higher beings and five orders of lower beings, which constitute—with men, who form a single class—fourteen orders, and these are divided into three worlds or classes. The…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Vedanta; the term itself is not named.
Bad Karma is worked out in that state and then the souls come back to earth and get another chance. This human form is the great chance. It is called the _karmic_ body, in which we decide our fate. We are running in a huge circle, and this is the point in the circle which determines the future. So a human body is considered the greatest body there is; man is greater than the gods. Even they return to human birth.
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
States what Vedanta is.
Kant’s primary mistake was the neglect of this principle, as is shown in the appendix. How early again this truth was recognised by the wise men of India, appearing indeed as the fundamental tenet of the Vedânta philosophy ascribed to Vyasa, is pointed out by Sir William Jones in the last of his essays: “On the philosophy of the Asiatics” (Asiatic Researches, vol. iv. p. 164), where he says, “The fundamental tenet…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
The author is tied to Vedanta in the knowledge graph; names Vedanta.
Philosophers who discussed Vedanta
- Madhvacharya
- Vijnanabhiksu
- Ammonius Saccas
- David Ray Griffin
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Adi Shankara
- Sri Aurobindo
- Titus Burckhardt
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Bhāskara (Bhedabheda Vedanta)
- Sanskrit
- Vallabha
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gaudapada
- Bhāviveka
- Plotinus
- Vāchaspati Misra
- Vyasatirtha
- Swami Vivekananda
- Frithjof Schuon
- Aldous Huxley
- Shrimad Rajchandra
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Yamunacharya
Related ideas
- Avatar
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Bhagavata Purana
- Dvaita Vedanta
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- Vishishtadvaita
- Ramanuja
- Madhvacharya
- Brahma Sutras
- Bhartṛhari
- Ishvara
- Vijnanabhiksu
- Kashmir Shaivism
- Alvars
- Hinduism
- Indology
- Hindus
- India
- Vedas
- Jainism
- Guru
- Helena Blavatsky
- Karma
- Karnataka
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
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Narrower topics:
- Agama (Hinduism)
- Alvars
- Assam
- Bhagavan
- Bhashya
- Eknath
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness
- Karnataka
- Yamunacharya
- Tirumular
- George Abraham Grierson
- Swaminarayan Sampradaya
- Jayatirtha
- Nathamuni
- Srinivasacharya
- Vedarthasamgraha
- Govindapada
- Vivartavada
- Nimbarka Sampradaya
- Siddhitraya
- William Jones (philologist)
- Yadava Prakasa
- Theodor Goldstücker