Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta is a Hindu tradition of Vedanta, a Brahmanical tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy; and a monastic institutional tradition nominally related to the Daśanāmi Sampradaya and propagated by the Smarta tradition. Its core tenet is that jivatman, the individual experiencing self, is ultimately pure awareness mistakenly identified with the body and its senses and with thought-constructs, and non-different from Ātman/Brahman or sat, the highest Self or Real. The term Advaita (अद्वैत) literally means "not-two" or "one without a second", which means that only Brahman, 'the one', is ultimately real while prapanca, 'the second', 'the world' or the multiplicity of thought-constructs, is not fully real. It is commonly rendered as "nonduality", and popularly interpreted as meaning that Atman is non-different from Brahman, and often equated with monism.