Advaita

Ad·vai·ta

[uhd-vahy-tuh]
noun Hinduism.
one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance. Compare dvaita ( def 2 ).

Origin:
< Sanskrit

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