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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
CHAPTER IX
VEDANTA (SAMKARA)
The Advaita Vedānta system of Samkara has been a very renowned and powerful school of philosophy in the post-Buddhist period. The onslaught of Buddhism on Hinduism was great and Hinduism based upon the Sruti was facing a critical position. Saakara, a disciple of Gaudapādācārya, happend to be born in the ninth century and he constructed a new system of philosophy based upon the Veda and Upanisadas, which could meet the challenge of Buddhism. Sankara assimilated some features of Buddhism and reconciled them with the Upanişadic thought. He counteracted the influence of Buddhism by admitting their important features and at the same time by refuting them on rational grounds. Sarakara concluded in his system that 'the world is unreal' but he did not stop there; he further asserted that the Brahman or the Absolute alone is real, everything else is unreal or illusory. Buddhism ends in completely denying reality to the world and leaves nothing behind which survives; therefore, it is negative and nihilistic in character. But although Sawkara denies reality to the world his philosophy ends in the affirmation of the Brahman which exists
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