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unusual facts about Advaita Vedanta


Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw

During Dèr Mouw's life only one volume of his poetry was published: Brahman I, under the pen name Adwaita.


Debjan

The book also touches upon long standing debates in Hindu theology like that between Advaita Vedanta which believes that one Supreme Impersonal Godhead Brahman permeates the entire Universe and the creation is the superimposition of this impersonal through Maya, and Vaishnavism, which is a dualist doctrine, i.e. it believes in God separate from the creation, viz. world.


see also

Jiva Goswami

In essence, the philosophy of Achintya bheda abheda, or "inconceivable oneness and difference", avoids the extremes of Shankara's monistic Advaita vedanta and Madhva's pure dualism (Dvaita) by interpreting the material and spiritual potencies of the Supreme Person (Bhagavan) as being simultaneously one and different with Him.

Neti

Neti neti, a chant or mantra in Hinduism, and in particular Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta

William Patrick Patterson

The rare-born Danish mystic Sunyata, who was given this name in 1936 by Ramana Maharshi, lived with Patterson starting in 1982 and introduced him to Advaita Vedanta.