The name this site gives to the monistic current of the East: the teaching that one reality alone is real, and that the self and that reality are not two.
Eastern Pantheistic Monism is a constructed heading. It gathers the strands of Hindu thought, above all Advaita Vedanta, that teach a single ultimate reality, Brahman, with whom the inner self, Atman, is finally identical, and beside them the kindred monisms of other Eastern schools. The heading is a device for comparison, drawn openly rather than found in the traditions' own speech, and the schools it gathers stand in the tree under their own names as well.
Eastern Pantheistic Monism across the site
Sources
Primary
- The principal Upanishads.
Secondary
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy (1923).
How this compares to Christianity
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