Samkara's Advaita Vedanta: A Way of Teaching (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)

by Jacqueline Suthren Hirst

he justifies, as we have already seen, by the fact that ‘the awareness of brahman is the purpose (artha) of human beings because it destroys the worthless (anartha-) misconception, etc. which is the seed of the whole world of rebirth’ (p.