The Doctrine of Māyāvāda All over Vedic texts, the material nature or prakriti is also termed as māyā, which literally means—“that which is not”. Pursuant to this, there is a doctrine called Māyāvāda, which says that the world doesn’t exist. It is literally like a “hallucination”, which has no objective […]
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The Freudian vs. the Vedic Unconscious
Two Descriptions of the Unconscious The initial thesis of Freudian psychoanalysis and that of Vedic philosophy are similar—that our surface behaviors are the result of a deeper “unconscious” reality. The person in both cases is described hierarchically—e.g. as an iceberg, with only the tip visible, while most of its reality […]