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Detailed explanation-1: -It holds that Brahman or God is within, not without; and that the highest truth can only be found by realising the Self, which is a permanent, unchanging substratum of all existence. It deems the world as Maya, an illusion that has no independent reality separate from our perception. We create the world we live in.

Detailed explanation-2: -Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta; Sanskrit: ), propounded by Gaudapada (7th century) and Adi Shankara (8th century), espouses non-dualism and monism.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Vedanta, God is infinite existence, infinite consciousness, and infinite bliss. The term for this impersonal, transcendent reality is Brahman, the divine ground of being. Yet Vedanta also maintains that God can be personal as well, assuming human form in every age.

Detailed explanation-4: -In empirical matters, Advaita is said to follow the Bhatta School of Mimamsa. In the latter school, six means of valid knowledge are recognized: perception (pratyaksa), inference (anumana), verbal testimony (sabda), comparison (upamana), postulation (arthapatti), and non-apprehension (anupalabdhi).