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The Advaita Worldview
God, World, and Humanity
von Anantanand Rambachan
Verlag: State University of New York Press
Reihe: SUNY series in Religious Studies
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ISBN: 978-0-7914-8131-8
Erschienen am 01.02.2012
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 158 Seiten

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Anantanand Rambachan is Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College and is the author of several books, including The Limits of Scripture: Vivekananda's Reinterpretation of the Vedas.



Abbreviations 
Introduction 

1.The Human Problem

The Limits of Knowledge
The Limits of Wealth
The Limits of Pleasure
The Reflective Life

2. The Requirements of Discipleship

The Necessity of Virtue
Viveka
Vairagya 
Samadisatkasampatti 
Mumuksutva
Sadhana Catustaya and the Immediacy of Knowledge
Eligibility for Discipleship and the Caste System

3. The Nature of the Atman

Overcoming the Human Problem
Who Am I?
The Atman and the Body
The Atman and the Mind
The Atman as Awareness
The Atman as Timeless
The Atman as Ananda
The Atman as Non-dual

4. The Source of Valid Knowledge

The Significance of a Valid Means of Knowledge
The Limits of Perception and Inference
The Vedas as the Means of Knowledge for Brahman
Knowledge and the Attainment of Brahman
The Self-Revealing Nature of Brahman
Ignorance as Incomplete Knowledge of Brahman
Knowledge and Experience
The Dilemma of Knowing the Knower
Non-dual Experience and Non-dual Knowledge
The Teacher and the Text
Brahman as Ultimate Mystery

5. Brahman as the World

Denying the Reality and Value of the World
The Origin of the World from Brahman
Brahman as Intelligent and Material Cause
The Universe as Non-different from Brahman
The Doctrine of Maya
Asymmetrical Relationship between Brahman and World 
Is the World an Illusion?
World as Celebrative Expression of Brahman 
Seeing the One and the Many

6. Brahman as God 

Brahman as Nirgunand Saguna 
Are Hierarchies in Brahman Necessary? 
The Problem of Change and Activity in Brahman 
The Problem of Substance and Attributes 
The Problem of Purpose
The Value of the Creation of Brahman
 

7. Liberation

The Nature of Ignorance 
Liberation as Identical with the Nature of Brahman 
Embodied or Living Liberation
Liberation as Freedom from Desire
Liberation as the Attainment of Fullness of Self 
Liberation as Freedom from Mortality
Liberation as Freedom from the Cycles of Rebirth 
Liberation as Freedom from Karma
Liberation as Freedom in Action
Liberation as Identification with All Beings
Liberation as Knowing Brahman to be Self and God

Notes
Index


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