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The Theology of Avatāra in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa

Religions, 2020
The idea of avatāra no doubt presents a philosophical challenge, as it appears to stand in contrast to the Vedāntic principle of non-duality; the Bhāgavata purāṇa (BhP) offers an opportunity to look into this question due to its unique structure, which ...
Ithamar Theodor
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El aporte del Ṛg-Veda a la doctrina no dualista (advaita vedānta ) según Śaṅkara

Estudios de Asia y África, 2022
Śan·kara acepta el Veda como fuente escritural ortodoxa para averiguar acerca del dharma y del brahman. En general, se ha estudiado ya gran parte de las interrelaciones textuales que este autor entreteje principalmente alrededor de las upaniṣad para ...
Anselmo Hernández Quiroz
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The meaningfulness of “The Meaninglessness of Ritual”: [an advaita Vedānta perspective on] Vedic ritual (yajña) as narrative of renunciation (tyāga)

Horizonte, 2018
The objective of the present article is to suggest that systematic, deliberate and gradual renunciation (tyāga) constitutes the fundamental thrust of Indian Vedic traditions and the main feature of what may be called a religious or spiritual outlook, in ...
Dilip Loundo
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A Complex Ultimate Reality: The Metaphysics of the Four Yogas

Religions, 2020
This essay will pose and seek to answer the following question: If, as Swami Vivekananda claims, the four yogas are independent and equally effective paths to God-realization and liberation from the cycle of rebirth, then what must reality be like?
Jeffery D. Long
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Encountering the Ultimate in the Bhagavad Gītā: An Experience of Pratyabhijñā (Recognition)

Open Theology, 2018
Is religious experience necessarily the product of one specific tradition? The constructivist approach to religious experience which prevails in the contemporary academy certainly suggests that this is the case.
Long Jeffery D.
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From Līlā to Nitya and Back: Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa and Vedānta

Religions, 2020
There has been a long-standing academic debate on the religious orientation of Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṁsa (1836–1886), one of the leading religious figures of modern India.
Arpita Mitra
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The Metaphysical Magnificence of Reduction: The Pure Ego and Its Substrate According to Phenomenology and Vedanta

Religions, 2023
This article examines relationships between the absolute being of the universal ego (Ātman-self) according to the Indian religious philosophy of Vedanta (V) and the phenomenological, irreal being of the transcendental ego in Husserl’s phenomenology (P ...
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
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Vendantic view on life and consciousness: BN Shanta is correct

Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2016
The explanation for Vedanta offered by Bhakti Niskama Santa (BNS) is valid from both scientific and philosophical grounds. It seems that the published critique of Gustavo Caetano-Anollés (GCA) to Shanta's paper is purely emotional and does not have any ...
Medicharla Venkata Jagannadham
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Advaita Vedanta answer to the hard problem of consciousness: A philosophical review

Yoga-Mimamsa, 2020
For thousands of years, human beings have been exploring the fundamental nature of the world and the self. In this process, modern science and Vedanta philosophy do not differ in conceiving the physical body as a material and mind also as a material. But
Ravi Kumar Reddy Juturi
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Balancing the Poles of the Seesaw: The Parallel Paths of Eckhart and Hindu Vedānta toward Oneness with God/Brahman

Religions, 2023
The ultimate aim of both Eckhart’s philosophy and Vedānta philosophy is to attain oneness with God/Brahman. Nevertheless, their different philosophical starting points and the conflict between the sublime ideal of the theory and reality means that their ...
Jianye Liu, Zhicheng Wang
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