Abstract

SEVILLA GODINEZ, Héctor. Brahman and The West. Conscience and Liberation in Śaṁkara’s Advaita Thought. En-clav. pen [online]. 2017, vol.11, n.21, pp.41-60. ISSN 2594-1100.

This article’s goal is to show the path towards liberation proposed by the Advaita through an alternative manner of comprehending the act of knowing; this is, linking it to the conscience and separating it from a mere intellectual act. In the same manner, the central operating approach of the Advaita is referred to by turning to the texts of the Vākyavritti’s, the Ātmabodha and the Bhagavad-Gītā, that is: the importance of dissolving oneself in Brahman as a definitive exercise of non-duality consummation. Finally, some existing links between the ideas proposed in the Advaita and Heidegger’s philosophy, will be pointed out, especially with regard to each approach about nothingness, and alternative paths towards the non-dual comprehension of the human philosophical exercise in the West and the East.

Keywords : Śaṁkara; Non-duality; Conscience; Brahman; Nothingness.