Vedanta literally means "the end of the Veda." However, the work refers to both the teaching of the Upanishads, the last treatise of the Vedas, and to the knowledge of the ultimate meanings.
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Vedanta and Tantra Shastra
When your representative asked me to speak this evening, he suggested to me as my subject, that Shastra which is a practical application of the Vedantic teaching.
Vedanta (Sans.) Meaning literally, the "end of all knowledge." Among the six Darsanas or the schools of philosophy, it is also called Uttaramimansa, or the "later" Mimansa.
Nothing exists except the Self--that is the starting-point in Vedanta. All permeating, all-controlling, all- inspiring, the Self is everywhere present. As the ether permeates all matter, so does the One Self permeate, restrain, support, vivify all.
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The classical terms for wisdom - the Mahayana Buddhist term prajna, the Indian Vedanta term gnana, and the Greek Christian term gnosis, could all be said to mean "knowing-by-being-one-with.
In 1910, Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, who combined Indian Chistiyyah Sufism and Hindu Vedanta as well as various eastern musical traditions, visited America and established the Sufi Order in the West (returning in 1923 and 1925).
To one who has read and understood Mundakya Upanishad and Vedanta-Sara all this becomes very clear.
The fractal is gnostic because it is the illusion that conceals reality, the ensnaring Maya of Vedanta. The Truth is out there (note the Platonic assumption).
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, Self
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