Advaita

[ uhd-vahy-tuh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance. Compare dvaita ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Advaita¹

From Sanskrit

Example Sentences

She darted among the shelves and offered nutshell biographies of the Holy Trio, sacred figures in her discipline of Advaita Vedanta.

From New York Times

In San Francisco, a fellow musician gave her a book on Advaita Vedanta, a tradition that embraces all faiths as equally valid.

From New York Times

“Something as intense as the music led me to Advaita Vedanta,” she explained.

From New York Times

Mahavira founded Jainism; Shankara came up with the monist philosophy known as Advaita Vedanta; Guru Nanak inaugurated Sikhism.

From The New Yorker

He took a room in a modest hotel and went to daily satsangs, spiritual discussions, at the apartment of Ramesh Balsekar, a former president of the Bank of India and a teacher of Advaita Vedanta, a Hindu discipline.

From The New Yorker