Smartism

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The Smarta tradition is brahminical in the strictest sense, its authority resting on the Veda and its practice carried by brahmin households.

The ten-named renunciate order and the Smarta tradition both trace themselves to Shankara, and the heads of its four monasteries are the tradition's recognised authorities.

One verse of a longer sukta, held as a hymn and as a mantra at once, which is why the atlas refuses to make it choose.

Recited at the junctures of the day, and the discipline a Smarta householder's observance is built around.

The most demanding of the recitation styles, and the one a reciter is examined on.

Smarta worship of the five deities begins with Ganesha, so this is the mantra with which the rite opens.

The graduated recitation styles are the discipline by which a household transmits its branch of the Veda across generations with no written text.

A family holds one branch of one Veda, and which branch it holds decides what it recites and how.

The thread is given at the upanayana and worn across the left shoulder for life, marking the wearer as twice born and entitled to Vedic recitation.

Smarta practice sets five deities together in one rite and holds them equal, so no single image is the sole object and the worshipper may take any of the five as the one nearest at hand.

Acharya is the title behind Shankaracharya, the head of each of the monastic mathas Adi Shankara is traditionally credited with founding, the paradigmatic office of Smarta Advaita authority.

Smartism holds Atman, the individual self, to be identical with Brahman, per the non-dualism of Advaita Vedanta.

The Brahma Sutras, read through Shankara's Advaita commentary, are the philosophical anchor of Smarta practice and doctrine.

Smartism follows Advaita Vedanta's identification of ultimate reality as Brahman, the ground beneath every one of the panchayatana's five deities.

Smartism holds that choosing an ishta-devata among the five sanctioned deities is personal temperament, not doctrine, since all five lead equally to Brahman.

Smartism holds Shankara's Advaita teaching that the world's apparent separateness from Brahman is Maya, an appearance dispelled by liberating knowledge.

Panchayatana puja, worship of five deities as equal manifestations of one Brahman, is Smartism's defining, denomination-naming practice.

Smarta households keep the panchayatana puja, worshipping Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, Ganesha and Surya together as five equal forms of one reality, so a preferred deity may be chosen without denying the rest.

Depicts Adi Shankara, the organizer of Panchayatana worship whose teaching underlies Smartism, together with the four disciples the tradition credits with founding its four cardinal monastic centers.

Swami is the standard monastic title of the Dashanami Sannyasa order, founded within the Advaita tradition Smartism follows.

The Upanishadic Mahavakyas, cornerstone texts of Shankara's non-dualism, are held as core teaching within Smartism's Advaita framework.

Non-injury is held in Smartism, and vegetarian diet is the norm in its brahminical households.

Ignorance is held in Smartism in the Advaita sense, as what conceals the identity of self and absolute.

Devotion is practised in Smartism, at the five-deity domestic shrine, and it is not held to be the means of liberation: it purifies the mind for the knowledge that is.

Giving is held in Smartism among the household duties.

Dharma is central in Smartism, which takes its name from the remembered texts that set out household and ritual duty.

The teaching lineage is held in Smartism, and the monastic seats traced to Shankara are its institutional form.

The path of knowledge is held in Smartism as the means of liberation, with household ritual and worship preparing the mind for it.

Karma is held in Smartism, and the tradition's domestic ritual calendar is organised around obligations that are held to matter.

The Advaita account of liberation, held with the fivefold worship as its devotional setting.

Negation is held in Smartism as the method of approach to the absolute, following the Advaita reading.

Absorption without distinction is held in Smartism, following the Advaita account of it.

Merit and demerit are held in Smartism.

The supreme self is held in Smartism, read as the absolute with qualities and non-different from the absolute without them.

Periodic dissolution is held in Smartism.

Collected absorption is held in Smartism.

Transmigration is held in Smartism.

Latent impressions are held in Smartism, and the household rites of passage the tradition maintains carry the same name.

Being, consciousness and bliss are held in Smartism as the Advaita description of the absolute.

The three strands are held in Smartism.

The fourth state is held in Smartism, following the Advaita reading of the Mandukya.

Vedanta is held in Smartism in its Advaita form, which is the tradition's theology.

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