The Vedas (1500 - 500 BC) - pre-Hindu spiritual texts.
Orthodox Hindu consider the Vedas authoritative. Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, and non-Brahmin Hindus, or heterodox Hindus, do NOT accept the authority of the Vedas.
Vedanta - schools of Hindu philosophy which interpret the Vedas non-ritualistically, based on three works of post-Vedic literature:
Advaita Vedanta - the most dominant sub-school of the Vedanta.
Adi Shankara (AD 800) synthesized and rejuvenated the Advaita Vedanta teachings. His teacher was Govinda.
There are several ways to divide the world into two or more aspects:
Orthodox Hindu consider the Vedas authoritative. Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, and non-Brahmin Hindus, or heterodox Hindus, do NOT accept the authority of the Vedas.
Vedanta - schools of Hindu philosophy which interpret the Vedas non-ritualistically, based on three works of post-Vedic literature:
- the Upanishads (600 - 100 BC),
- the Bhagavad Gita (part of the epic Mahabharata, 500 BC), and
- the Brahma Sutras (400 - 450 AD).
Advaita Vedanta - the most dominant sub-school of the Vedanta.
Adi Shankara (AD 800) synthesized and rejuvenated the Advaita Vedanta teachings. His teacher was Govinda.
There are several ways to divide the world into two or more aspects:
- yin and yang
- good and evil
- subject and object
These are all judgments that have no reality.
How many gods are there? One. An easy answer, but the implications are profound, and lead only to the nondualism viewpoint.
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