Executive Briefing: Non-Duality
Adi Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta posits the fundamental non-difference between the individual soul (Atman) and ultimate cosmic reality (Brahman), regarding the empirical world of multiplicity as superimposition (Adhyasa) through Maya.
1. Tat Tvam Asi: That Thou Art
Analyzing the Mahavakyas of the Upanishads, Shankara demonstrates that liberation (*Moksha*) is not the acquisition of a new state, but the intuitive realization of one’s primordial, unconditioned nature as pure consciousness (*Sat-Chit-Ananda*).
2. References
- Deutsch, E. (1969). Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction. University of Hawaii Press.