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viveka (viveka)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Short Description: Discrimination, distinction

Long Description: Discrimination, distinction; in Sāṃkhya, the direct, intuitive discrimination of Purusha (Puruṣa) from Prakriti (Prakṛti); in Advaita Vedānta, the distinction between what is eternal and what is non-eternal, Ātmā and Māyā.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger