2007-12-20 02:12:41 · 11 answers · asked by Aradhana 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What are you trying to say Bharat Vanshi?
2007-12-20 21:04:05 · update #1
Mother kali is the link between Dvait and Advait
jai mata di
2007-12-20 04:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by Divya Jyoti 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Both are vedanta philosophies, meaning they are based on same scriptures - vedas, upanishads and Gita. Both holds the idea that there is One Supreme Being/Paramatma. (BrahmaN). They differ in the principle/school and the means but they have a common goal, liberation/samadhi or moksha.
The differences being, In Dvaita (Dual), the jiva-atma and parm-atma are two separate and former is always subservient to the latter(Lord), jivas are plural and the world is real. Lord is all saguna.liberation is only through "Bhakti". In Advaita (non-dual), the jiva and the Lord are one and the same, the world is an illusion and the Lord is nirguna(formless). the means of liberation is only through "gnyana(knowledge)".
Vishisht-advaita(Qualified Advaita), is more like Advaita, in the sense the jiva is similar to the Lord in Intrinsic nature (in qualities like Being, Consciousness and Bliss), but qualified otherwise like dvaita. Jivas are atomic, individuals varying in consciousness. The varying consciousness is due to ignorance or avidya. They believe in the plurality of jivas and the means of moksha is through "bhakti yoga and surrender". The Lord is all saguna (all auspiciousness, the bestest) .
2007-12-20 19:11:13 · answer #2 · answered by ananta 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Vedanta
Veda+anta meaning the end of perceptible knowledge
End in the sense of all that could possibly be thought of and said
has been done so. there is nothing more that can be said of the supreme and the ways of understanding and attaining Him.
Thus the different perceptions are the outcome of different interpretations of what is contained in the philosophical part of the Vedas.
As pointed above the goal is the same
the understanding and paths may be different.
For example I am more attracted towards these words found in one of the Upanishads
'You believe he exists; You don't he does not'
Atheism is also in the very same Vedas. Unparallelled for such intellectual honesty in not found in any other literature of any civilisation of the world - past or present- where theism and atheism are presented side by side and you are free to choose the one that quenches you thirst for the supreme
PS contrary to popular belief the Vedas seem to point out that you need not believe in God to attain 'enlightenment"
2007-12-21 05:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by madhatter 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dvaita: I am separate from God - and must strive to become like him through many births till I reach a consciousness that does not necessitate me to take birth again and again.
Advaita: We are all parts of the one supreme God and need to realise this consciousness to be redeemed of the reason to be born again and again.
Typically Hinduism ... all paths lead to the same goal. Yet people argue about the paths and forget the goal. (In this case, the goal is to be conscious to a level where life and death does not make a difference)
2007-12-20 13:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You left out vishishtadvaita.
Nondualism is nearly atheism. There is no 'God' or worshipping humans. There is only a Universal Awarenes, an "I am that I am', which is timeless present. It is the ignorance that casts a veil.
Dualism believes that there is a higher entity and the individual souls are below that worshipping it , with it yet apart.
Vishishtadvaita starts out as dual but the individual soul cam merge into the Universal Being with knowledge.
2007-12-20 11:05:02 · answer #5 · answered by A.V.R. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I beg to differ from even the great AUM (my apologies)
Advaita, literally, "non-dualism," advaita is the name of the oldest extant school of vedAnta. advaita bases itself upon the upanishads, the brahma-sUtras and the bhagavad-gItA. advaita asserts that the real, essential identity of the jIva, the individual self, is nothing other than brahman Itself. The teaching follows from upanishadic statements (mahAvAkyas) like tat tvam asi and aham brahmAsmi. It is in this cardinal doctrine that advaita differs from all other schools of vedAnta. The main tenets of advaita are detailed in commentaries written by SankarAcArya, the famous philosopher who lived in the 7th - 8th centuries A.D.
Dvaita, or Mâdhva siddhânta, is the name for the doctrine of Vedanta that asserts the eternal and immutable difference between the individual soul, or jiiva, and the Supreme Lord, or Iishvara (also known as Vishnu).
Such misperception is one of the reasons why some reject the use of 'Dvaita' to refer to the doctrine of Tattvavâda. While it is true that Advaita and Tattvavâda have had many debates over hundreds of years, and that the latter denies the jagan-mithyatva (illusory nature of the universe) that is one of the fundamental tenets of Advaita, it is certainly not the case that there is disagreement everywhere, nor is it the case that one can derive Tattvavâda merely by taking the opposite of everything claimed by Advaita. But it can be said with full certainty that on most fundamental issues such as the nature of Ãshvara, jîva, attainment of mukti, etc., the two have total and irreconcilable differences.
Even so, the doctrines are not polar reciprocals in the conventional sense—it is not the case that they assert logically opposite tenets at every point.
This fight even now persists in South India even today.
2007-12-20 12:26:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Dvaita(duel) is MAYA, the power of God or his Shakti. This Dvaita is this manifested universe. This universe has duality in everything, cause and effect, pleasure and pain, life and death, man and woman.
Advaitha is Lord or Ishwara, he cannot be explained in words,he is said to be everywhere, he is the soul of every living being, he is Paramatma. Ishwara's power is Maya, this world is an illusion, because there is none other than Ishwara.
There is one relation between the Dual and Non-dual, that is Power of Ishwara is Maya(duality). Ishwara who is the soul, is thinking himself as a body, as matter, the goal of soul(ishwara) is to fight against this Maya and realize its true nature, which is SatChitAnanda.
We are actually not here to live peacefully, we are at war against MAYA...
2007-12-20 10:32:27 · answer #7 · answered by The Ranger 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They're both Vedanta philosophies, in that they base their philosophy on the Vedas (and more specifically, the Upanishads). However, they disagree strongly on the relation between the individual and the whole. Advaitans maintain that the individual is an illusion caused by avidya (ignorance), whilst Dvaitans see the individual as seperate.
2007-12-20 10:25:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My answer is same as of Magnolia Flora !!!
Advaita and dvaita are just different explanations of the same truth....
Wtihout first establishing into Dvaita... Advaita is not possible... Remember Ramakrishna's example ?
EDIT: Dear deep, differing is very healthy... pls reply my qn reg Advaita and dvaita.. we can have more open thoughts on this.. thanks for the b'ful explanation
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2007-12-20 11:56:41 · answer #9 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 7⤊ 4⤋
Dwaita is the way
Adwaita is the goal
Both are two ideas of an unique thing "BRAHMA"
To understand Adwaita.......we have to worship HIM by being dwaita.......that is " away from HIM"
2007-12-20 11:33:22 · answer #10 · answered by Shripathi Krishna Acharya 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋