Asamsakta, Asaṃsakta, Asamshakta: 8 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Asaṃsakta (असंसक्त) or Asaṃsaktamana refers to “one with an unattached mind”, according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] The liberated man is not averse to the senses and nor is he attached to them. He enjoys himself continually with an unattached mind (asaṃsakta-mana) in both achievement and non-achievement. [asaṃsaktamanā nityaṃ prāptāprāptamupāśnute] One established in the Absolute state with an empty mind does not know the alternatives of inner stillness and lack of stillness, and of good and evil. [...]”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Asaṃsakta (असंसक्त).—a.
1) Unconnected, incoherent; दुहितुर्बूह्यसंसक्तो माभूत्तत्र विचारणा (duhiturbūhyasaṃsakto mābhūttatra vicāraṇā) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.4.11.
2) Unattached; अभिप्रेतम- संसक्तमात्मजं दातुमर्हसि (abhipretama- saṃsaktamātmajaṃ dātumarhasi) Rām.1.19.17.
Asaṃsakta (असंसक्त).—mfn.
(-ktaḥ-ktā-ktaṃ) Indifferent to, not attached to. E. a neg. sam with sakta attached.
1) Asaṃsakta (असंसक्त):—[=a-saṃsakta] mfn. unconnected, incoherent, [Bhāvaprakāśa]
2) [v.s. ...] (said of the eyebrows) not joining, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
3) [v.s. ...] not attached to, indifferent to ([locative case]), [Rāmāyaṇa vii, 3, 2; Harivaṃśa]
Asaṃśakta (असंशक्त):—[a-saṃśakta] (ktaḥ-ktā-ktaṃ) a. Indifferent.
Asaṃsakta (असंसक्त):—Adj. unzusammenhängend [Bhāvaprakāśa 3,12.]
Asaṃsakta (असंसक्त) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Asaṃsatta.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Kannada-English dictionary
Asaṃsakta (ಅಸಂಸಕ್ತ):—[adjective] not tending to be attached; not sticking together; not coherent.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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