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Vedanta

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end or goal of the Vedas

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Purpose of Vedanta

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set out to deliberately underwrite the main conclusions of the Upanishads

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Advaita school of Vedanta

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most widely accepted philosophical school in India, founded by Shankara (788-830 A.D.), practical guide to spiritual experience

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Advaita Vedanta

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to know is to be, shows how opposing views are self contradictory/ implausible therefore Vedanta has a negative approach “neti, neti”

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Advaitic conception of Brahman

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describes the experience of Brahman

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Brahman

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obliteration of subject/object distinction

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Saccidananda

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fullness of being which enlightens and is joy

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Saccidananda and Brahman

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Saccidananda is not the qualities of Brahman, but express human apprehension of Brahman, a symbol of Brahman, experience

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Nirguna

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Brahman is without characteristics, the highest, the transcendent, nothing can be said in the positive, as it is in itself

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Saguna

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Brahman with qualities, he is affirmed and interpreted by the kind from its necessarily limited standpoint

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Brahman for Advaita Vedanta

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name for that fulness of being which is the content of non-dualistic spiritual experience, an experience in which all distinctions between subject and object are shattered and in which remains only a pure, unqualified oneness

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Subration

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mental process whereby one disvalues some previously appraised object or content of consciousnes because of its being contradicted and replaced by a new experience

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Three levels of being are determined by

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levels of knowledge

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Three levels of being

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reality, appearance, unreality

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Reality

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that which cannot be subrated by any other experience, cannot be contradicted, applies to nirguna Brahman

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Appearance

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can be subrated by other experiences

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Three parts of appearance

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real existent, existent, illusory existent

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Real existent

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can be subrated only by Reality; ex/ religious experiene of union with god

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Existent

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can be subrated by Reality or real existent; ex/ sensory experience

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Illusory existent

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can be subrated by all other types of experience; ex/ hallucinations, dreams

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Unreality

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neither can nor cannot be subrated by other experiences; ex/ self contradiction, logical impossibilities

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Brahman and the world

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satkaryavada and vivartavada

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Satkaryavada

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theory that the effect pre-exists in its cause

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Vivartavada

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theory that the effect is only an apparent manifestation of its cause

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Maya

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power of Brahman by which the world of multiplicity is brought into existence; ex/ magic trick

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Avidya

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cause of bondage of not realizing Brahman

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Adhyasa

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ignorance of Brahman

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Arguments for satkaryavada

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cause/effect unrelated or random, infinite regress of casual links, a change in form doesn’t make a completely different entity

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Six pramanas

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Perception,Inference,Testimony, Comparison, Postulation, Non-cognition