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There are currents of idealism
Idealism

Idealism is the philosophical theory which maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas. It holds that the so-called external or "real world" is inseparable from mind, consciousness, or perception....
 in classical Hindu philosophy
Hindu philosophy

Hindu philosophy is divided into six Sanskrit nastika schools of thought, or darshanas :#Sankhya, a strongly dualist theoretical exposition of mind and matter....
. Idealism and materialism are the principal monist
Monism

Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the Universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities; or theology may support the view that there is one God, with many manifestations in different...
 ontologies
Ontology

Ontology in philosophy is the study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic category of being and their relations....
. A related branch is the Buddhist concept of consciousness-only
Consciousness-only

In Buddhism, consciousness-only or mind-only is a theory according to which unenlightened conscious experience is nothing but false discriminations or imaginations....
.

Idealist notions have been supported by the Vedanta
Vedanta

Vedanta is a spiritual tradition explained in the Upanishads that is concerned with the self-realisation by which one understands the ultimate nature of reality and teaches the believer's goal is to transcend the limitations of self-identity and realize one's unity with Brahman....
 and Yoga
Raja Yoga

Raja Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, outlined by the sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. Raja yoga is concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation to further one's acquaintance with reality and finally achieve moksha....
 schools opposed by dualist Samkhya
Samkhya

Sankhya, also Samkhya, is one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy. Sage Kapila is traditionally considered to be the founder of the Sankhya school, although no historical verification is possible....
, the atomist Vaisheshika
Vaisheshika

'Vaisheshika', or , is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy of India. Historically, it has been closely associated with the Hindu school of logic, Nyaya....
, the materialist Nyaya
Nyaya

is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy—specifically the school of logic. The Nyaya school of philosophical speculation is based on texts known as the Nyaya Sutras, which were written by Aksapada Gautama from around the 2nd century AD....
 and Mimamsa
Mimamsa

, a Sanskrit word meaning "investigation" , is the name of an astika school of Hindu philosophy whose primary enquiry is into the nature of dharma based on close hermeneutics of the Vedas....
 as well as the atheist Carvaka
Carvaka

' is a system of Indian philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is also known as '....
 schools.

Like Platonic idealism
Platonic idealism

Platonic idealism usually refers to Plato's theory of forms or doctrine of ideas, the exact philosophical meaning of which is perhaps one of the most disputed questions in higher academic philosophy....
, Hindu idealism is essentially monotheist
Monotheism

In theology, monotheism is the belief that only one god exists. The concept of "monotheism" tends to be dominated by the concept of God in the Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the Neoplatonism concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite....
, espousing the view that consciousness
Consciousness

Consciousness is a difficult term to define, because the word is used and understood in a wide variety of ways, so that it frequently happens that what one person sees as a definition of consciousness is seen by others as about something else altogether....
, which at its root emanates from God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 (Brahman
Brahman

Brahman is a concept of Hinduism. Brahman is the unchanging, infinite, Immanence, and transcendence reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe....
,Purusha
Purusha

In Hinduism, Purusha is the "Atman " which pervades the universe. The Vedas deity are considered to be the human mind's interpretation of the many facets of Purusha....
 or Svayam bhagavan
Svayam Bhagavan

Svayam Bhagavan , "The Lord" or Lord Himself, is a Sanskrit theological term. The term refers to the concept of absolute representation of the monotheistic God as Bhagavan within Hinduism....
), is the essence or meaning of the phenomenal reality.

The presence of idealist concepts in Indian thought has been emphasized by Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is a United Kingdom former biochemistry and plant physiologist who now researches and writes on parapsychology and other controversial subjects....
 and Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
. These ideas have also been developed by P.R.






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There are currents of idealism
Idealism

Idealism is the philosophical theory which maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas. It holds that the so-called external or "real world" is inseparable from mind, consciousness, or perception....
 in classical Hindu philosophy
Hindu philosophy

Hindu philosophy is divided into six Sanskrit nastika schools of thought, or darshanas :#Sankhya, a strongly dualist theoretical exposition of mind and matter....
. Idealism and materialism are the principal monist
Monism

Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the Universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities; or theology may support the view that there is one God, with many manifestations in different...
 ontologies
Ontology

Ontology in philosophy is the study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic category of being and their relations....
. A related branch is the Buddhist concept of consciousness-only
Consciousness-only

In Buddhism, consciousness-only or mind-only is a theory according to which unenlightened conscious experience is nothing but false discriminations or imaginations....
.

Idealist notions have been supported by the Vedanta
Vedanta

Vedanta is a spiritual tradition explained in the Upanishads that is concerned with the self-realisation by which one understands the ultimate nature of reality and teaches the believer's goal is to transcend the limitations of self-identity and realize one's unity with Brahman....
 and Yoga
Raja Yoga

Raja Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, outlined by the sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. Raja yoga is concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation to further one's acquaintance with reality and finally achieve moksha....
 schools opposed by dualist Samkhya
Samkhya

Sankhya, also Samkhya, is one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy. Sage Kapila is traditionally considered to be the founder of the Sankhya school, although no historical verification is possible....
, the atomist Vaisheshika
Vaisheshika

'Vaisheshika', or , is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy of India. Historically, it has been closely associated with the Hindu school of logic, Nyaya....
, the materialist Nyaya
Nyaya

is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy—specifically the school of logic. The Nyaya school of philosophical speculation is based on texts known as the Nyaya Sutras, which were written by Aksapada Gautama from around the 2nd century AD....
 and Mimamsa
Mimamsa

, a Sanskrit word meaning "investigation" , is the name of an astika school of Hindu philosophy whose primary enquiry is into the nature of dharma based on close hermeneutics of the Vedas....
 as well as the atheist Carvaka
Carvaka

' is a system of Indian philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is also known as '....
 schools.

Like Platonic idealism
Platonic idealism

Platonic idealism usually refers to Plato's theory of forms or doctrine of ideas, the exact philosophical meaning of which is perhaps one of the most disputed questions in higher academic philosophy....
, Hindu idealism is essentially monotheist
Monotheism

In theology, monotheism is the belief that only one god exists. The concept of "monotheism" tends to be dominated by the concept of God in the Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the Neoplatonism concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite....
, espousing the view that consciousness
Consciousness

Consciousness is a difficult term to define, because the word is used and understood in a wide variety of ways, so that it frequently happens that what one person sees as a definition of consciousness is seen by others as about something else altogether....
, which at its root emanates from God
God

God is a deity in theism and deism religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
 (Brahman
Brahman

Brahman is a concept of Hinduism. Brahman is the unchanging, infinite, Immanence, and transcendence reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe....
,Purusha
Purusha

In Hinduism, Purusha is the "Atman " which pervades the universe. The Vedas deity are considered to be the human mind's interpretation of the many facets of Purusha....
 or Svayam bhagavan
Svayam Bhagavan

Svayam Bhagavan , "The Lord" or Lord Himself, is a Sanskrit theological term. The term refers to the concept of absolute representation of the monotheistic God as Bhagavan within Hinduism....
), is the essence or meaning of the phenomenal reality.

The presence of idealist concepts in Indian thought has been emphasized by Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is a United Kingdom former biochemistry and plant physiologist who now researches and writes on parapsychology and other controversial subjects....
 and Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
. These ideas have also been developed by P.R. Sarkar and advanced by his disciple Sohail Inayatullah
Sohail Inayatullah

Sohail Tahir Inayatullah is a Pakistani-born political scientist and futurology who lives in Australia. He holds a number of academic positions:...
, notably in the theory of Microvitum.

Liberation

The essence of Hindu Idealism is captured by such modern spiritual teachers as Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spirituality teacher and philosopher of Advaita , and a Guru, belonging to the Ichegeri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya....
, Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo was an demographics of India nationalist, scholar, poet, mysticism, Evolution , yoga and spiritual Guru. After a short political career in which he became one of the leaders of the early movement for Indian independence movement from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the exploration of the subtle realms of human existence...
 and Sri Anandamurti, also known as P.R. Sarkar. Sri Nisargadatta advocated discovery of the real self. By establishing oneself in the earnestness of spiritual pursuits, it is possible to transcend the temporal self, limited by desires, fears, memories and mental constructs, and gain blissful immersion in the pure
Purity

Purity is the absence of impurity in a substance.Purity may also refer to:* in Buddhism, Purity in Buddhism refers to a spiritual purity of character or essence....
 consciousness of God. Sarkar went further by emphasising that liberation was best achieved through service to self and society, exemplified by his socio-spiritual movement Ananda Marga
Ananda Marga

Ananda Marga, officially known as Ananda Marga Pracharaka Samgha meaning "the samgha for the propagation of the path of ananda" is a "social and spiritual movement" founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar , known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti....
, or the "Path of Bliss".