The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
17 teachers
Vedanta (Advaita)
Adi Shankara
Advaita: Self is Brahman
c. 700-750 CE (traditional dates vary; often given c. 788-820)
Vedanta (Advaita)
Ramanuja
Qualified nondualism (Vishishtadvaita) and devotional grace
c. 1017-1137
Vedanta (Advaita)
Basava
Lingayat devotion to Shiva joined to radical social equality
c. 1131-1196
Vedanta (Advaita)
Madhva
Dualist (Dvaita) Vedanta and devotion to Vishnu
c. 1238-1317
Vedanta (Advaita)
Kabir
The formless divine and the inner Name, beyond Hindu and Muslim
c. 1440-1518
Vedanta (Advaita)
Guru Nanak
Nam simran and the formless divine within
1469-1539
Vedanta (Advaita)
Mirabai
Ecstatic Krishna-bhakti and the soul as divine lover
c. 1498-1547
Vedanta (Advaita)
Tulsidas
Ram-bhakti and the Ramcharitmanas as a living path of devotion
c. 1532-1623
Vedanta (Advaita)
Tukaram
Varkari bhakti and the abhanga as devotional realisation
c. 1608-1649
Vedanta (Advaita)
Sarada Devi
The Holy Mother — universal motherhood and the divine in all
1853-1920
Vedanta (Advaita)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Advaita Vedanta for the modern world
1888-1975
Vedanta (Advaita)
Anandamayi Ma
Spontaneous bliss; embodied divine energy
1896-1982
Vedanta (Advaita)
Eknath Easwaran
Passage meditation & the mantram
1910-1999
Vedanta (Advaita)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Effortless mantra transcending to pure awareness
1918-2008
Vedanta (Advaita)
Acharya Shunya
The sovereign Self is already free, whole, and divine, and Vedic wisdom is simply the path of remembering it.
c. 1965–present
Vedanta (Advaita)
Gaudapada
Non-dual idealism, waking = dream
c.6th-7th century CE
Vedanta (Advaita)
Krishna
The deathless Self and the yogas of action, devotion, and knowledge
traditional/scriptural figure (Bhagavad Gita, c. 2nd c. BCE - 2nd c. CE text)