Neo-Vedanta arose from Ramakrishna’s mysticism and Vivekananda’s synthesis, but modern teachers increasingly sound like Advaita itself. Why Vedanta cannot bend to interpretation.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption without distinctions, praised in yoga as the highest state. Vedanta clarifies: it is an impermanent experience, a reflection of the Self in a sattvic mind, but not liberation. Moksha comes only through Self-knowledge.