A good overview of Advaita Vedanta(A nondualist School of Hinduism)

[Vehl]

I came across this short video clip about the non-dualist Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism. The basic tenet of this school is that it claims that everything in this universe(s) are one. It is a Monistic school of thought( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism ). The purest form of this philosophical school does away with the need for God or divinity. As a follower of this school, I consider myself an Atheist Hindu.

ps: I have to note that some of the words used in this video might be slightly misleading. for example.. "joy"..'bliss" are terms that imply duality. In a non-dualist philosophy such terms do not have any real meaning. Thus overlook the usage of such terms in this video as the result of poor choice of English words/poetic license.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn5DLp8y3tg

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The lines from the video
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Seek to know that which by knowing
-The nature of all things is known.
Seek to love that by which loving
-The love beyond all forms is known.
That by which knowing, loving, holding
-Comes absolute joy.
The one that is unbounded, unconditioned, limitless
-That which we may call, You or He or She
Shows through countless face
-While still being only that absolute reality
May we know that and be free from suffering.
Weather with two legs, four legs or no legs
-You oh one without a second
let us meditate on that, the supreme consciousness

With countless forms, yet yourself
-Formless being, itself
Like ink and the many words
Like sand and countless sand castles
Through the play, the dance of illusion
You the unity, appear as diversity
How beautiful you are, oh, one, in your diversity
being both joy and sorry, while still that one
Let us remember that bliss that is always there
-underneath, not dependent on the multiplicity of the second

Let us remember, remember, remember
Like old keys, or the misplaced note of an old friend
Let us be still and quiet
-not forcing with analysis
But allowing, inviting
The faded secret to come forward on its own
As the Atlantic need not reject the pacific to know the ocean
-we need not reject one another, to know the truth.
As we need not reject the ocean to follow the river to its source
-we need not reject religions of cultures to recede into the nondual reality

All roses are flowers, but not all flowers are roses
one can contain the other, but the second cannot contain the first
The whole contains the part, but the part not the whole
So too, only the infinite nondual contains the dual
While we peel away the layers of the onion
-Let is remember the core, which, itself, is but a phantom
After all, let us remember, remember and remember
There is no core
There truly is no core
As we are all one alsolute nondual reality
-without a second




credit : online