Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta
The nature of consciouness or human awareness is one of the problems of perennial concern to philosphers and psychologists alike. Here is a systematic critical and comparative study the nature of human awareness according to the most influential school of classical Indian thought. After introducing the Advaita Philosophical system and indicating the place of consciouness in this system the author presents a detailed discussion of the Advaitin`s unique non-dual understanding of man`s basic intelligence. He continues with and analysis of the Advaitin`s hierarchical vision of waking dream and dreamless sleep experience and compares this analysi,
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absolute consciousness according activity Advaita Vedānta Advaitic analysis Advaitic conception Advaitic theory Advaitin argues Atman Aurobindo avidyā awareness Bhattacharyya bliss Bṛhad Bṛhadāraṇyaka C. G. Jung cancelled causal characterized claim cognition collective unconscious deep sleep Descartes Deutsch discussion distinguish doctrine dream experience duality Edmund Husserl epistemology eternal existence external objects fact freedom Freud Hegel human Husserl Ibid identification identity ignorance illusory Indian individual intelligence intentionality jivanmukta Jung knower level of consciousness liberation light limitation Madras manifest māyā mental metaphor metaphysics mind modified consciousness nature of consciousness ness non-dual ontological Padmapāda perception phenomenal consciousness phenomenal experience Phenomenology Philosophy Plotinus position pure consciousness radical discontinuity radical ontological Rāmānuja reality realization samādhi Sankara Sankara argues sciousness self-luminous sense organs soul spiritual experience śruti subject and object sublation substance theory of consciousness thought tion trans transcendence transcendental turiya ultimately University Upanisad Vedanta waking consciousness waking experience