What is the ideal of Vedanta?
The ideal aimed at in Vedanta is to attain to a state that is beyond all birth and death, from which there is no falling off, a state of freedom. Freedom or liberation can come only by dissociating ourselves from our body and mind, in other words, from
What is Vedanta? Are there different schools in it? If so, what is the essential teaching of each school?
Meaning of the word ‘anta’ is ‘end’ or ‘essence’. Since the Upanishads form the end portions of the Vedas and contain their essence, they have been termed as ‘Vedanta’. The ‘Brahmasutras’ (of the sage Badarayana) which try to systematize the teachings
What is Moksha? What will that experience be like? How can one attain it?
We know from our direct experience that we are separate from the dress we wear or the house we live in. Similarly, we are separate from the body, the senses, the mind and egoism. When this fact is directly experienced, our essentially blissful nature
What are the doctrines of Vedanta?
The Vedantist says, "I am He". Brahman is real and the world illusory. Even the "I" is illusory. Only the Supreme Brahman exists. But the "I" cannot be got rid of. Therefore it is good to have the feeling, "I am the servant of God, His son, His devo