A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Ekajivavada
This page describes Ekajivavada which is located on page 583 of the first volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Ekajivavada” according to 4 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Shakti and Shakta [by John Woodroffe]
The version commonly given of Ekajiva-vada—namely, that the one Primary Self is Me, and that You, He and the rest, and the world of objects are the projection of Me— is loose and unpsychological. In the first place, Me cannot be there (logically conceiving) without its Correlate or Pole—the Not-Me; so that, by the very act by which Me is evolved from Brahman, its Correlate is also evolved, and this Correlate is Root-Matter....
Read full contents: Chapter XXXI - Conclusions
Preceptors of Advaita [by T. M. P. Mahadevan]
This is identical with the ekajivavada According to this view, the consciousness when reflected in avidya is jiva and since avidya is one, the jiva also is one. And the other individual souls and the insentient universe are like objects in a dream state; they have only apparent reality. The one and the only individual soul attains liberation after getting the intuitive knowledge of Brahman from the preceptor who is also fancied by him as an omniscient being....
Read full contents: 34. Sadananda Kashmiraka
Shankaracharya and Ramana Maharshi (study) [by Maithili Vitthal Joshi]
In the treatise ‘Guru-vachaka-kovai , his approval to Ekajiva-vada is clearly recorded. According to him, the Aneka-jiva-vada is explained only for the less qualified aspirants. Furthermore, he puts forth the illustration of the dream state to refute the multiplicity of the jivas. The multiple jivas seen in a dream are not actually apart from the dreamer. When one wakes up from the dream, he realizes this truth and does not further enquire about the truth of the dream-phenomena....
Read full contents: Chapter 3.1 - Ramana Maharshi on Jiva
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