Vedanta Vs Belief System

 

Vedanta Vs Belief System

Is Vedanta a belief system? If there is a knowledge that is not a belief, it is the knowledge of the atma revealed by Vedanta. The external objects are there or not – one can doubt. Our perception of any external object need not be true. Yet many of us believe that it exists. Hence even science is a belief system. Science is based on observation of the external objects. It is based on the fundamental belief that the observations are valid.

The atma is the witness of all thoughts – cognitions and beliefs. Hence the presence of atma alone cannot be doubted or negated. Hence Atma is there – it cannot be called a belief. It is a truth that cannot be doubted about.

A belief is a fact that can be otherwise doubted. It is not so with the atma – the self.