Vedanta

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Hindu system of philosophy concerned with the self-realisation by which one comes to understand the ultimate nature of reality, or Brahman.

    "Well, Vedanta recognizes no sin, only error, and the greatest error, it says, is to believe that you are a sinner, a wretch deficient in character."

  2. 2
    The Upanishads collectively.
Noun
  1. 1
    (from the Sanskrit for ‘end of the Veda’) one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints rooted in the Upanishads as opposed to Mimamsa which relies on the Vedas and Brahmanas wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वेदान्त (vedānta).

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