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Advaita Drishti, more accurately transliterated as Advaita Dṛṣṭi, is an attempt to systematically dwell on the traditional teachings of Advaita Vedanta. The word Dṛṣṭi here refers to Vision, or Direct Knowledge (Aparokṣa Jñānam). Hence, Advaita Dṛṣṭi means Direct Knowledge of the Non-Dual Reality, Brahman, the one without a second, which, astonishingly, is none other than the Reality of the individual, the Ātmān (the Self). The benefit of this knowledge is Mokṣa, liberation from all suffering and attainment of limitless fulfillment.

The author, Lakshminarayanan (Satyan), is a full-time student of Vedanta and Sanskrit based in Chennai. He has been studying Vedanta under his Guru, Śri Swami Paramarthanandaji, since 2003. A graduate of IIT Madras in Computer Science and a post-graduate from the University of Michigan, Satyan served at a global software firm for 26 years in various technical leadership roles before leaving his job in 2019 to focus on his Vedanta and Sanskrit studies full-time. Satyan has also been studying Pāṇinīya Vyākaraṇam based on Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudī for the past three years under Dr. Sowmya Krishnapur from Vyoma Samskrita Pathashala.