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- noun Plural form of
Vedantist .
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In short, the perennialists (and the Vedantists and yogis) contend that religion as such is gloriously diverse, but religious experience is not.
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In short, the perennialists (and the Vedantists and yogis) contend that religion as such is gloriously diverse, but religious experience is not.
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This inner, ever-present heaven is actually more consistent with the inner space of nirvana or moksha -- liberation -- that Buddhists and Vedantists describe than it is with what a lot of people take away from Sunday school.
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If the past, present, and future were static and truly existent, as Vedantists assert, then the no-longer-existing, presently-existing, and not-yet-existing vase would all exist forever and there would be no need to produce anything.
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Also, as some Vedantists assert, it is illogical to assert that although a non-liberated self is an illusion and not truly existent, a liberated self is truly existent.
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The famous Vedantict words tat tvam asi have been interpreted by the Vedantists this way: “I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.”
The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002
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The famous Vedantict words tat tvam asi have been interpreted by the Vedantists this way: “I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.”
The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002
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Plato and Aristotle had clearer conceptions of the personality of the deity and of the distinct and responsible character of the human soul than any school of Hindu philosophers -- certainly clearer than the Vedantists, and their ethics involved a stronger sense of sin.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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The Vedantists say that one may stumble into superconsciousness sporadically, without the previous discipline, but it is then impure.
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"That art Thou!" say the Upanishads, and the Vedantists add: "Not a part, not a mode of That, but identically That, that absolute Spirit of the World."
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