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While the traditional Vedic Karma kānda,^[1] or ritualistic components of religion, continued to be practiced through the Brahmins as meditative and propitiatory rites to guide society to self-knowledge, more jnana (gnosis)- or knowledge-centered understandings began to emerge. These are mystical streams of Vedic religion that focused on meditation, self-discipline and spiritual connectivity rather than on rituals.

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	(Japanese)	ヴェーダーンタ学派
	(German)	Vedanta
	(French)	Védanta
	(Italian)	Vedānta

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Swami Prabhavananda

Swami Prabhavananda was one of the senior monks at the Vedanta Society of Southern California...

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Baul

Baul is a type of folk song in India and Bangladesh. It is influenced by Hindu bhakti movements, [{Vedanta]] and shuphi, a form of Islamic song...

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Madhva

Madhva (1199-1278), better known as Madhvacharya, was the chief propounder of the Dvaita or dualistic school of Hindu philosophy, one of the three influential Vedanta philosophies...

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Bede Griffiths

Alan Richard Griffiths (1906-1993), AKA Swami Dayananda, was a saintly mystic who lived in his ashram, called Shantivanam, in South India. He wrote twelve books on Hindu-Christian dialogue. Griffith's particular form of Vedanta-inspired Christianity is called Wisdom Christianity...

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Dayananda Saraswati

Advaita Vedanta, Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotish, Sanskrit and other classical Hindu studies. The word Arsha means... spiritual knowledge of the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Brahma-sutras, and other classical Vedanta texts. Swami Dayananda is currently the most revered teacher of Advaita Vedanta in the world. He has also...

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Perennial Philosophy

was popularized by Aldous Huxley in his book The Perennial Philosophy in his description of Vedanta...

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Schools of Hinduism

back as three thousand to only a few dozen years. Many are extensions of varying schools of Vedanta... major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy Samkhya Nyaya Vaisheshika Purva mimamsa Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa) Advaita Vedanta Integral Yoga Yoga Hatha yoga Siddha Yoga Other major...

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Tapovan Maharaj

Swami Tapovan Maharaj of Uttarkashi is the master from whom Swami Chinmayananda acquired his knowledge on Vedanta. He authored two books on his travels through the Himalayas: "Himagiri Viharam" and "Kailasa Yatra." His autobiography, written in Sanskrit is titled "Ishvara Darshana". He died at the...

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Darshanas

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Smriti

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