Vedanta Definition

vĭ-däntə, -dăn-
noun
The system of philosophy that further develops the implications in the Upanishads that all reality is a single principle, Brahman, and teaches that the believer's goal is to transcend the limitations of self-identity and realize one's unity with Brahman.
American Heritage
A system of Hindu monistic philosophy based on the Vedas.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Vedanta

  • Sanskrit vedāntaḥ complete knowledge of the Veda Vedaḥ Veda Veda antaḥ end ant- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vedanta Sentence Examples

  • His great achievement was the perfecting of the Mimansa or Vedanta philosophy.

  • So great were his learning and piety that he was regarded as an incarnation of Siva, and his works (commentaries on the Vedanta Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads) exercised a permanent influence on Hindu thought.

  • In northern India, the professed followers of Sankara are mainly limited to certain classes of mendicants and ascetics, although the tenets of this great Vedanta teacher may be said virtually to constitute the creed of intelligent Brahmans generally.

  • Whilst Sankara's chief title to fame rests on his philosophical works, as the upholder of the strict monistic theory of Vedanta, he doubtless played an important part in the partial remodelling of the Hindu system of belief at a time when Buddhism was rapidly losing ground in India.

  • Madh y a Acharya, another distinguished Vedanta teacher and founder of a Vaishnava sect, born in Kanara in A.D.

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