Tyagadana, Tyāgādāna, Tyaga-adana: 1 definition

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Vedanta (school of philosophy)

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Tyāgādāna (त्यागादान) refers to “renunciation and acquisition”, which are to be abandoned by those seeking inner freedom (svāsthya), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Janaka says to Aṣṭavakra]: “The inner freedom of having nothing is hard to achieve, even with just a loin-cloth, but I live as I please abandoning both renunciation and acquisition (tyāgādāna) [tyāgādāne vihāyāsmādahamāse yathāsukham]. Sometimes one experiences distress because of one's body, sometimes because of one's tongue, and sometimes because of one's mind. Abandoning all of these, I live as I please in the goal of human existence. [...]”.

Source: Wikisource: Ashtavakra Gita
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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).

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