Revealing Advaita Vedanta

by P. K. Sasidharan Nair

Advaita Vedanta has coloured Indian life in many aspects. It is one of the most impressive thought-system of India. To a great extent it satisfies the deep requirements of metaphysics and the claims of logic and reason. It has been compared with the philosophies, both eastern and western. As a result many books and monographs have been written on the subjects. This is but natural, considering the appeal that Advaita Vedanta has for the modern world. Many modern preceptors of philosophy have followed the doctrine of Sankara with or without changes. Advaita is a discriminative harmonization of different perspectives and spiritual experiences. Being the expression of the plenary experience of Reality, it occupies a pre-eminent place among the major philosophical system viz.