Consciousness in Advaita VedantaThe 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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AN ANALYSIS OF ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS | 22 |
Chapter III | 45 |
Chapter IV | 67 |
Chapter V | 117 |
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absolute consciousness according activity Advaita Vedānta Advaitic analysis Advaitic conception Advaitic theory Advaitic thinkers Advaitin argues Atman Aurobindo avidyā awareness bliss Brhad Brhadaranyaka Upaniṣad C. G. Jung cancelled causal characterized claim cognition collective unconscious deep sleep Descartes Deutsch discussion distinguish doctrine dream experience duality epistemology eternal existence external objects fact freedom Freud Hegel human Husserl's Ibid identification identity ignorance illusory Indian individual intelligence intentionality jivanmukta Jung knower level of consciousness liberation light limitation Mandukya manifest māyā mental metaphor metaphysics mind modified consciousness nature of consciousness ness non-dual ontological perception phenomenal consciousness phenomenal experience philosophical Plotinus position pure consciousness radical discontinuity radical ontological Rāmānuja reality realization rience samādhi samsāra Sankara Sankara argues sciousness self-luminous sense organs soul spiritual experience śruti subject and object sublation substance theory of consciousness thought tion transcendence transcendental turiya ultimately undifferentiated Upaniṣad Vedānta Vijñānavādin waking consciousness waking experience