Thảo luận:Vedanta

The sanskrit word vedanta is composed of two words veda and anta. Veda in this context are the four great books available at this time called the vedas, anta means the end. The upanishads are towards the end of the vedas. Therefore, vedanta philosophy is the philosophy of the upanishads. There more than a hundred upanishads with different philosophical view points. These are consolidated in the brahmasutras and further in the Bhagavadgeeta. The main 10 upanishads, brahmasutras, and Bhagavadgeeta are together called prasthantrayee, and are considered the foundations of the religion now called hinduism.

Adi Shankaracharya was, of course, the most well known commentator on all these, expounding the non--dualistic viewpoint, and implementing it by unifying the various sects of Hindus at his time, in particular absorbing buddhism and jainism in the hindu fold.

There were many other commentators. The prasthantrayee, to some extent, plays the role of the bible for us. If anyone wishes to assert that his viewpoint is religiously sanctified, he has to make a commentary on the prasthantrayee to justify the viewpoint. Unlike Christianity, we don't kill those whose viewpoints are not so justified, but nevertheless, such unjustified viewpoints are not considered valid and don't become mainstream.

Mainly the gita. Brahmasutras, like yogasutras are very brief, and hard to read (at least I found them so). Some nice English commentaries on the upanishads are by Radhakrishnan and Aurobindo.

They have also written commentaries on the gita, and so has our guruji, yoganandaswami.

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QT 05:38, ngày 30 tháng 9 năm 2007