Swami Sarvapriyananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, gives philosopher Alex O'Connor an introduction to Advaita Vedanta, the non-dual school of Hindu thought. He explains what the Upanishads are, what the terms Brahman and Atman refer to, and how Advaita treats consciousness and the self as one undivided reality rather than many separate minds. The conversation also covers where the tradition places the idea of God and how that view differs from Western theism.