What is the concept of Brahman? : शंकराचार्य के अनुसार ब्रम्ह की अवधारणा

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What is the concept of Brahman?
What according to Advaita Vedanta is the nature of Brahman explain after Sankara The relation between the Jiva and Brahman?
What is Atman in Advaita Vedanta?
What is Brahman according to Vedas?
What are the characteristics of a Brahman?
Who created Brahman?
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In the Advaita tradition, liberation is attained through disidentification from the body-mind complex and the notion of 'doership', and acquiring vidyā (knowledge)[8] of one's true identity as Atman-Brahman, self-luminous (svayam prakāśa) awareness or Witness-consciousness. Upanishadic statements such as tat tvam asi, "that you are," destroy the ignorance (avidyā) regarding one's true identity by revealing that (jiv)Ātman is non-different from immortal Brahman, the nature of which is sat (true Reality or Pure Existence), cit (pure Awareness or Consciousness),[note 5] and ananda (bliss). in short Sat-cit-ananda. In this view, jivatman or individual self is a mere reflection or limitation of singular Ātman in a multitude of apparent individual bodies. Shankara emphasizes that, since Brahman is ever-present, Brahman-knowledge is immediate and requires no 'action', that is, striving and effort; yet, the Advaita tradition also prescribes elaborate preparatory practice, including yogic samadhi and contemplation on the mahavakyas, posing a paradox which is also recognized in other spiritual disciplines and traditions.
Advaita Vedanta is the oldest extant tradition of the orthodox Hindu school Vedānta, a tradition of interpretation of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gitā (collectively known as the Prasthanatrayi). Advaita Vedānta adapted philosophical concepts from Buddhism, giving them a Vedantic basis and interpretation, and was influenced by, and influenced, various traditions and texts of Indian philosophy, While Shankara did not embrace Yoga, the Advaita Vedānta tradition in medieval times explicitly incorporated elements from the yogic tradition and texts like the Yoga Vasistha and the Bhagavata Purana, culminating in Swami Vivekananda's full embrace and propagation of Yogic samadhi as an Advaita means of knowledge and liberation.
While the 8th century Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) Adi Shankara is generally regarded as the most prominent exponent of the Advaita Vedānta tradition, this prominence started to take shape only centuries later in the 14th century, when Sringeri matha started to receive patronage from the kings of the Vijayanagara Empire, competing with Srivaisnava Visistadvaita groups for royal patronage and converts.[note 10] Shankara's prominence was established in the 19th and 20th century, gaining worldwide fame, in a "confluence of interests" of Western Christian missionaries, the British Raj, and Indian nationalists. Due to the influence of Vidyaranya's Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha (14th c.), the importance of Advaita Vedānta was strongly emphasized by Western scholarship, and Advaita Vedānta came to be regarded as the paradigmatic example of Hindu spirituality, despite the numerical dominance of theistic Bhakti-oriented religiosity. In modern times, Advaita views appear in various Neo-Vedānta movements.
Advaita Vedanta
While "a preferred terminology" for Upanisadic philosophy "in the early periods, before the time of Shankara" was Puruṣavāda,[50][note 12] the Advaita Vedānta school has historically been referred to by various names, such as Advaita-vada (speaker of Advaita), Abheda-darshana (view of non-difference), Dvaita-vada-pratisedha (denial of dual distinctions), and Kevala-dvaita (non-dualism of the isolated).[51] It is also called māyāvāda by Vaishnava opponents, akin to Madhyamaka Buddhism, due to their insistence that phenomena ultimately lack an inherent essence or reality,[52][53][54][55]
According to Richard King, a professor of Buddhist and Asian studies, the term Advaita first occurs in a recognizably Vedantic context in the prose of Mandukya Upanishad.[51] In contrast, according to Frits Staal, a professor of philosophy specializing in Sanskrit and Vedic studies, the word Advaita is from the Vedic era, and the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya (8th or 7th-century BCE[56][57]) is credited to be the one who coined it.[58] Stephen Phillips, a professor of philosophy and Asian studies, translates the Advaita containing verse excerpt in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, as "An ocean, a single seer without duality becomes he whose world is Brahman."[note 14]