(Advaita – Not Two-Non Duality), (Vedanta- End of Vedas ‘Upanishad’) is basically and understanding by which ignorance is removed with the knowledge. Ignorance here implies to a belief that “I am a body/mind”. Advaita has two stages when it’s first understood. In the first stage, one separate’s itself from what is not real, such as I am not my body, mind and intellect and reaches at a point of a Witness Self, which in itself is a great achievement.
But Advaita which stands for non duality will argue, what is a point in being a witness only, as it would be also argued and seen by many as duality. “Witness Self and the Other”.
Advaita in a second stage, it then merges back as ONE (I Am THAT I Am) with the intellect, mind, body and the world and recognizes all are only an appearances, forms, names and transactions (Maya), and seeing itself as (ONE) Brahman as an Ultimate Reality, A Non Dual Self…
Namaste ॐ