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    Neo-Advaita, also called the Satsang-movement is a new religious movement, emphasizing the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego...
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    term "Neo-Vedanta" was coined by German Indologist Paul Hacker, in a pejorative way, to distinguish modern developments from "traditional" Advaita Vedanta...
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    Bhakti-oriented religiosity. In modern times, Advaita views appear in various Neo-Vedānta movements. The word Advaita is a composite of two Sanskrit words: Prefix...
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  • According to Anil Sooklal, Vivekananda's neo-Advaita "reconciles Dvaita or dualism and Advaita or non-dualism": The Neo-Vedanta is also Advaitic inasmuch as...
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    Indian religion. Several Neo-Vedanta movements and teachers, most notably the Ramakrishna Order, trace their roots to Advaita Vedanta, while the Inchegeri...
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    Anthony Paul Moo-Young, January 29, 1954) is a Jamaican spiritual teacher of Advaita based in the UK and Portugal. He gives talks (satsang) and conducts retreats...
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    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
    the most prominent spokesmen of Neo-Vedanta. His metaphysics was grounded in Advaita Vedanta, but he reinterpreted Advaita Vedanta for a contemporary understanding...
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    Ramana Maharshi (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
    revival of Theravada Buddhism. See also Timothy Conway, Neo-Advaita or Pseudo-Advaita and Real Advaita-Nonduality David Godman: "Because some of the interpreters...
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    Advaita Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism share significant similarities. Those similarities have attracted Indian and Western scholars attention, and have...
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    Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are...
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    ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ]), was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta. Reliable information on Shankara's actual life is scanty, and...
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    H. W. L. Poonja (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
    "Poonjaji" or "Papaji" /ˈpɑːpɑːdʒi/ by devotees. He was a key figure in the Neo-Advaita movement. At the age of eight, he claimed he had experienced an unusual...
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    Ramakrishna (category Neo-Advaita)
    practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as from Islam and Christianity. He advocated the essential...
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    different from Atman (Self) in each being. In non-dual schools such as the Advaita Vedanta, the substance of Brahman is identical to the substance of Atman...
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    Swami Vivekananda (category Neo-Vedanta)
    transcendent. According to Anil Sooklal, Vivekananda's neo-Vedanta "reconciles Dvaita or dualism and Advaita or non-dualism," viewing Brahman as "one without...
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  • Koan Introspection, Wisdom Publications Jacobs, Alan (2004), "Advaita and Western Neo-Advaita", The Mountain Path Journal: 81–88, archived from the original...
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    Tripathi, known as Acharya Prashant, is an Indian philosopher, author and Advaita teacher. He teaches seventeen forms of Gita and sixty forms of Upanishads...
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  • Vedanta include Neo-Vedanta, and the philosophy of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. Most major Vedanta schools, except Advaita Vedanta and Neo-Vedanta, are related...
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  • "frying the seeds of karma" is often used) Ātman is the first principle in Advaita Vedanta, along with its concept of Brahman, with Atman being the perceptible...
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    Andrew (1998), Jivanmukti in Transformation: Embodied Liberation in Advaita and Neo-Vedanta, State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-0791439043 Fort...
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  • a French author, spiritual teacher and philosopher of Nondualism and Neo-Advaita. According to Jean Klein, it is only in a "spontaneous state of interior...
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    various Neo-Vedānta movements. The historiography of Advaita Vedanta is coloured by Orientalist notions, while modern formulations of Advaita Vedānta...
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    to Shiva. Throughout his life, Mahaperiyava breathed and practised the Advaita philosophy of his guru, Adi Shankaracharya, the great Hindu philosopher...
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  • of the GNOME Desktop Environment Advaita Ashrama Kashmir Shaivism Neo-Advaita Neo-Vedanta Nondualism Shiva Advaita This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Vācaspati Miśra), was a ninth or tenth century Indian Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, who wrote bhashya (commentaries) on key texts of almost...
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    Her Friends, London: J. M. Dent Jacobs, Alan (Autumn 2004), "Advaita and Western Neo-Advaita", The Mountain Path Journal, Ramanasramam: 81–88, archived...
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    Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher) (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
    claimed that Poonja declared him his heir, so Cohen began to teach as a neo-Advaita teacher, and gathered a community around him. However Cohen only spent...
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    Robert Adams (spiritual teacher) (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
    Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) was an American Advaita teacher. In later life Adams held satsang with a small group of devotees in California...
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    Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
    Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian yoga guru, a spiritual leader. He is referred to as Sri Sri (honorific), Guru ji, or Gurudev. From around...
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    महावाक्यानि) are "The Great Sayings" of the Upanishads, as characterized by the Advaita school of Vedanta with mahā meaning great and vākya, a sentence. Most commonly...
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