Advaita Vedanta

The Hindu concept of nondualism

Yesterday I listened to the Making Sense podcast with Sam Harris and his guest Kieran Setiya. They discussed Advaita Vedanta—a Hindu concept about ‘nondualism’ or literally translated to ‘non-secondness’.

Advaita Vedanta means that humans are not separate from the world, which is essentially ‘monism’. In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, this oneness is ca…