Advaita | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Advaita


00:02:28 1 Etymology and nomenclature
00:03:28 2 Darśana (philosophy) - central concerns
00:07:29 3 Moksha – liberation through knowledge of Brahman
00:07:40 3.1 Puruṣārtha - the four goals of human life
00:08:31 3.2 Moksha - liberation
00:09:47 3.2.1 Jivanmukta
00:11:44 3.3 Vidya, Svādhyāya and Anubhava
00:13:27 3.4 Mahavakya – The Great Sentences
00:13:49 3.5 Stages and practices
00:14:17 3.5.1 Jnana Yoga – path of practice
00:16:50 3.5.2 Samadhi
00:17:20 3.5.3 Guru
00:18:53 4 Ontology - the nature of Being
00:19:03 4.1 Levels of Reality, Truths
00:22:52 4.2 Three states of consciousness and Turiya
00:24:50 4.3 Absolute Reality
00:24:59 4.3.1 Brahman
00:26:41 4.3.2 Atman
00:28:45 4.3.3 Identity of Atman and Brahman
00:29:36 4.4 Empirical reality - illusion and ignorance
00:30:29 4.4.1 Causality
00:33:02 4.4.2 iiMāyā/i/i (illusion)
00:35:34 4.4.3 iAvidya/i (ignorance)
00:37:05 5 Epistemology - ways of knowing
00:38:03 5.1 iPratyakṣa/i (perception)
00:39:28 5.2 iAnumāṇa/i (inference)
00:40:38 5.3 iUpamāṇa/i (comparison, analogy)
00:41:34 5.4 iArthāpatti/i (postulation)
00:42:19 5.5 iAnupalabdi/i (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof)
00:44:15 5.6 iŚabda/i  (relying on testimony)
00:45:19 6 Ethics
00:49:00 7 Texts
00:49:42 7.1 iPrasthanatrayi/i
00:51:38 7.2 Textual authority
00:53:38 8 History of Advaita Vedanta
00:53:55 8.1 Pre-Shankara Advaita Vedanta
00:55:06 8.1.1 Earliest Vedanta - iUpanishads/i and iBrahma Sutras/i
00:55:38 8.1.2 Bādarāyana's Brahma Sutras
00:56:42 8.1.3 Between Brahma Sutras and Shankara
00:58:27 8.2 Gaudapada and iiMāṇḍukya Kārikā/i/i
00:59:08 8.2.1 Mandukya Karika
01:00:22 8.2.2 Shri Gaudapadacharya Math
01:00:45 8.3 Adi Shankara
01:04:12 8.3.1 Historical context
01:05:09 8.3.2 Writings
01:07:35 8.3.3 Influence of Shankara
01:10:07 8.4 Post-Shankara - early medieaval times
01:10:17 8.4.1 Sureśvara and Maṇḍana Miśra
01:12:33 8.4.2 Advaita Vedanta sub-schools
01:13:07 8.4.2.1 Padmapada - Pancapadika school
01:13:32 8.4.2.2 Vachaspati Misra – Bhamati school
01:14:35 8.4.2.3 Prakasatman - Vivarana school
01:15:31 8.4.2.4 Vimuktatman - Ista-Siddhi
01:16:04 8.5 Late medieaval times - "Greater Advaita Vedanta" (Islamic rule of India)
01:16:33 8.5.1 Prominent teachers
01:17:16 8.5.2 Influence of yogic tradition
01:18:15 8.5.3 Development of central position
01:18:24 8.5.3.1 Highest Indian philosophy
01:19:48 8.5.3.2 Unifying Hinduism
01:21:30 8.6 Modern times (Colonial rule and independence)
01:21:48 8.6.1 Influence on Hindu nationalism
01:23:33 8.6.1.1 Swami Vivekananda
01:25:29 8.6.1.2 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
01:27:14 8.6.1.3 Mahatama Gandhi
01:28:05 8.7 Contemporary Advaita Vedanta
01:28:46 8.7.1 Influence on New religious movements
01:28:55 8.7.1.1 Neo-Advaita
01:29:30 8.7.1.2 Non-dualism
01:30:05 9 Sampradaya
01:30:14 9.1 Monastic order: Advaita Mathas
01:31:06 9.2 Shri Gaudapadacharya Math
01:31:30 9.3 Shankara's monastic tradition
01:33:13 10 Relationship with other forms of Vedanta
01:33:43 10.1 Vishishtadvaita
01:35:06 10.2 Shuddhadvaita
01:35:50 10.3 Dvaita
01:36:37 11 Historical influence
01:37:15 11.1 Smarta Tradition
01:38:42 11.2 Other Hindu traditions
01:40:14 12 Relationship with Buddhism
01:42:30 12.1 Similarities with Buddhism
01:44:43 12.2 Gaudapada
01:47:13 12.3 Differences from Buddhism
01:47:22 12.3.1 Atman and anatta
01:49:13 12.3.2 Epistemology
01:49:49 12.3.3 Ontology
01:51:23 12.3.4 Shankara on Buddhism
01:53:10 13 Reception
01:54:20 14 Advaitic Meditation (Bhramara-kita-nyaya)
01:54:47 15 See also



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Advaita Vedanta (; Sanskrit: अद्वैत वेदान्त, IAST: Advaita Vedānta, literally, "not-two"), originally known as Puruṣavāda, is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice, and one of the classic Indian paths to spiritual realization. The term Advaita refers to its idea that the soul (true Self, Atman) is the same as the highest metaphysical Realit ...