Advaita Vedanta

A Hindu philosophical tradition, a nondualist reading of Vedanta, teaching that the individual self is ultimately identical with Brahman, the ultimate reality, and that liberation comes through knowledge that recognizes the phenomenal world's apparent, rather than final, reality. The tradition crystallized in the eighth century CE through Adi Shankara, generally regarded as its most prominent exponent, who wrote of himself: 'I am Self, the supreme unconditioned Brahman. I am pure Awareness, always non-dual.'