Bliss or fullness treated as a defining feature of ultimate reality in some traditions, importantly distinct from ordinary pleasure or emotional happiness.
Ananda, often translated bliss, names a quality some Vedantic sources treat as a defining feature of ultimate reality itself, and this archive takes care to distinguish this technical sense sharply from ordinary pleasure or passing emotional happiness, which the same sources treat as a fundamentally different and lesser thing.
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A body of philosophical texts that shifted attention from ritual toward questions about the self, reality, and liberation.
A term for ultimate reality developed in the Upanishads and central to later Vedanta — understood very differently across schools.
The technical name for non-dualism within Vedanta, asserting that self and ultimate reality are, at the deepest level, not two.
A family of interpretive schools centered on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.