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	Vedanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vedanta (Vedānta) is an important branch of Hindu philosophy and is a form of Jnana Yoga (one of the four basic yoga practices in Hinduism; the others are: Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga), a form of yoga which involves an individual seeking "the path of intellectual analysis or the discrimination of truth and reality."
		Traditional Vedanta considered scriptural evidence, or sabdapramana, as the most authentic means of knowledge, while perception, or pratyaksa, and logical inference, or anumana, were considered to be subordinate.
		The cryptic aphorisms of the Vedanta Sutras are open to a variety of interpretations, resulting in the formation of numerous Vedanta schools, each interpreting the texts in its own way and producing its own sub-commentaries claiming to be faithful to the original.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vedanta (860 words)

	Ramanuja's Commentary on the Vedanta Sutras
		Vedanta philosophy is based on the teachings of the Upanishads.
		This viewpoint is in contrast to Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism), which teaches that Atman is the same as Brahman, and that Brahman is undifferentiated.
		The Vedanta Sutras (or Brahma Sutras) are aphorisms concerning the nature of Brahman, based on teachings of the Upanishads.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/ramanuja.html (1433 words)

	ORIENTALIA Definition of VEDANTA-SUTRAS in Indian Philosophy Oriental Encyclopedia
		Badarayana's sutras refer to interpreters of Vedanta before him who were concerned with such central issues as the relation between the finite individual (jiva) and the absolute spirit (Brahman) and the possible bodily existence of a liberated individual.
		To Asmarthya, an early Vedanta interpreter, is ascribed the view that the finite individual and the absolute are both identical and different (as causes and their effects are different--a view that seems to have been the ancestor of the later theory of Bhedabheda).
		Badarayana's own views on this issue are difficult to ascertain: the sutras are so concise that they are capable of various interpretations, though there are reasons to believe that Ramanuja’s is closer to their intentions than Sankara's.
	www.orientalia.org /gate.html?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=22321 (883 words)

	Advaita Vedanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The key texts from which all Vedanta texts draw are the Upanishads (especially twelve or thirteen in particular), which are commentaries on the Vedas, and the Brahma Sutras (also known as Vedanta Sutras), which is in turn a work discussing the essence of the Upanishads.
		Adi Shankara's treatises on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Vedanta Sutras are quoted as evidence that he advocated reason over dogma.
		Advaita Vedanta is commonly misapprehended as an intellectual philosophy, whereas it is quite practical, seeking to mould the body and mind back into a purer state of being.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Advaita (1966 words)

	Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana
		The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana are one of the six Darshanas from Vedic Literature which together unfold the total path to gaining enlightenment.
		Vedanta is hailed as the textbook of the fully mature state of enlightenment in unity consciousness.
		The supreme state of enlightenment, kaivalya, described in Vedanta, is a synthesis of the state of kaivalya described in Yoga as pure singularity, and the state of kaivalya described in Karma Mimansa as infinite dynamism.
	www.mumpress.com /p_d08.html (94 words)

	VISISTADVAITA VEDANTA HOMEPAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vedanta is the culmination of the Vedas being their end portion containing a summary of the final conclusions of the Vedas.
		In his interpretation of the Vedanta Sutras Sri Ramanuja has admirably combined the philosophy of the Upanishads with the religion of the Vedas by the proper integration of the apparently contradictory passages of the Upanishads with those of the supplementary scriptural texts to bring out the coherence and consistency of all the scriptural texts.
		Sri Ramanuja is, therefore, of the considered view that Sage Badarayana, the author of the Vedanta Sutras is in favour of the Panchartra school of thought as its doctrines are not contradictory to Vedic revelations as the earlier Vaidic and Non-Vaidic schools of philosophy.
	www.hinduweb.org /home/dharma_and_philosophy/vvh/vvhstl.html (11483 words)

	Vedanta Sutras and Commentaries (Bhashyas) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A sutra is a code that expresses the essence of all knowledge in a minimum of words.
		It must be universally applicable and faultless in its linguistic presentation; this is the definition of sutra according to Vayu and Skanda Puranas.
		According to the great dictionary compiler (Kosakara), Hemacandra, Vedanta refers to the purport of the Upanishads and the Brahmana portion of the Vedas.
	www.indiadivine.org /vedanta-sutras-bhashyas-commentaries1.htm (412 words)

	Read about Vedanta at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Vedanta and learn about Vedanta here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While the traditional Vedic 'karma kanda', or ritualistic components of religion, continued to be practiced as meditative and propitiatory rites to guide society, through the Brahmins, to self-knowledge, more jnana- or knowledge-centered understandings began to emerge, mystical streams of Vedic religion that focused on meditation, self-discipline and spiritual connectivity rather than rituals.
		In the medieval period, the word Vedanta came to mean the school of philosophy that interpreted the Upanisads.
		Schrödinger was a Vedantist and claimed to have been inspired by it in his discovery of quantum theory.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Vedanta (597 words)

	Hinduism - Brahma Sutras
		Sri Vyasa (Badarayana or Krishna Dwaipayana), the Guru of Jaimini, is the author of the Brahma Sutras otherwise known as the Vedanta Sutras.
		The study of Brahma Sutras is a synthetic study of the Upanishads.
		Vedanta is the end or gist of the Vedas.
	www.hinduism.8k.com /brahmasutras.html (2400 words)

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		The cryptic aphorisms of the Vedanta Sutras are open to a variety of interpretations, resulting in...
		central to the Vedanta school--namely the Upanishads, the Vedanta Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita--and...
		Sutras is a synthetic study of the Upanishads.
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	Sribhashya
		The Ramanuja tradition of Vedanta thus consolidated has influenced all subsequent writings on the Brahma-Sutra, not excluding the commentaries adverse to Sri Ramanuja's school of Vedanta [2].
		The primary scripture of Vedanta is to be supplemented and augmented by the secondary scriptures such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Puranas such as the Visnupurana, the Agamas such as the Pancaratra, and Smrti texts such as that of Manu.
		Thus the four Sutras establish the necessity and possibility of the inquiry into Brahman, the definition of It, the sources of knowledge concerning It, and the supreme value of the pursuit of the knowledge in question.
	www.ramanuja.org /sv/acharyas/ramanuja/sribhashya.html (3032 words)

	Brahma Sutras : the Nyaya Pasthana
		Brahma Sutras along with Upanishads (Sruti Prasthana) and Bhagwad Gita (Smriti Prasthana) constitutes the ‘Prasthan trayi’ or the ‘three canons’ of Vedantic scriptures, which are the pristine springs of Vedantic metaphysics.
		Brahma Sutra is called the Nyaya or Yukti Prasthan, because it logically reconciles and explains the various questions and doubts which may possibly come while going through the Upanishads, the basic pramana granthas.
		The sutras which reveal the fundamentals of Vedanta philosophy or Brahma Vidya are called ‘Brahma Sutras’ or the ‘Vedanta Sutras’.
	www.vmission.org /vedanta/shastras/bsutras.htm (719 words)

	AllRefer.com - Vedanta, Hindu Religion (Hinduism) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The term "Vedanta" has the literal meaning "the end of the Veda" and refers both to the teaching of the Upanishads, which constitute the last section of the Veda, and to the knowledge of its ultimate meaning.
		The dualist or dvaita Vedanta of Madhva (1197–1276) attacked the monistic followers of Shankara and defended a pluralist standpoint.
		Vedanta in one or the other of its forms has had a pervasive influence on the intellectual and religious life of India, and it is still a living tradition.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vedanta.html (512 words)

	Vedanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vedanta is based on the speculative portion of late Vedic literature, primarily the treatises known as Aranyakas and Upanishads.
		Through the proper knowledge of Vedanta, however, the individual soul recognizes the limitless reality forever existing behind the cosmic veil of maya, realizes that its own true nature is identical with Brahman, and through this self-realization achieves moksha (release from samsara and karma) and Nirvana.
		In the U.S., for example, in the early 1980s some 1000 members were claimed by the Vedanta Society of America, affiliated with a group with international headquarters at Belur Math, the Ramakrishna Mission chapel near Calcutta..
	www.connect.net /ron/vedanta.html (479 words)

	Brahma Sutras by Swami Sivananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vedanta Sutras are called "Sariraka Mimamsa" because they deal with Para Brahman, the Sarira (the embodied).
		They prove by various cogent and convincing arguments that the Brahman which the Vedantic texts proclaim as the cause of the universe is an intelligent principle, and cannot be identified with the non-intelligent or insentient Pradhana from which the world originates, as declared by the Sankhyas.
		The Sutras show that Brahman is All-Bliss and that by the term 'Anandamaya' in Sruti is meant neither the individual soul, nor the Pradhana of Sankhyas.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /bs_1/1-1-insy.html (662 words)

	The Vedanta Sutras of Narayana Guru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vedanta may be seen as the finest fruit on the tree of India's wisdom, for it brings the seeker that ultimate knowledge that ushers in the gift of self-fulfilment (ananda).
		And his Vedanta Sutras is a masterpiece in his attempt to restate the original Upanisadic teaching of non-dual Reality - his most succinct expression of that message.
		His simple and direct revaluation and restatement of the Vedanta, in general, has been found to be comprehensive and contemplative in its insight, reconciling the superficial disagreements of the Vedantic schools and restoring the pristine vision of the Upanisadic sages.
	www.buddhart.com /book/details/IDD235 (414 words)

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		Badarayana, in a work called the Vedanta Sutra, also known as Brahma Sutra, that appeared around the time of Christ.
		The cryptic way in which the aphorisms of the Vedanta Sutras are presented leaves the door open for a few interpretations.
		But, consistent throughout Vedanta is the authoritative declaration that ritual is to be eschewed in favor of intuitional questing for truth, for meditation governed by a loving morality, secure in the knowledge that infinite bliss does await her/him who seeks beyond the mere body and mind for it.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Vedanta (508 words)

	Used Book Central Search / keyword(s): sutras
		Explanatory notes are presented to facilitate proper understanding of individual sutras, especially in view of their formulation, interpretation, application and relative placement in the grammar.
		This makes it difficult to determine the specific nature of the Vedanta philosophy as enunciated by Badarayana in his classic sutras apart from what is claimed by the respective commentators.
		On the basis of an objective evaluation of the comments of Samkara, Ramanuja, and Madhva, the three principal exponents of Vedanta, he has conclusively established that the Vedanta philosophy of Badarayana is theistic monism, upholding the oneness of the Ultimate Reality as organically related to the sentient souls and the non-sentient cosmic matter.
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		I: Commentary on the Vedanta Sutras by Bhagavad Ramanujacharya comprising chapters I & II with Text in Devanagari: English translation by N.S. Anantha Rangachar; 780, 5th Main Road, Vijayanagar, Bangalore-560040.
		While the Vedanta Deepa discusses the main purport of each aphorism, the Vedanta Sara sets forth the essential meaning of each aphorism and section (adhikarana).
		The Vedanta Sara is the outcome of a further concern to make the teaching easily grasped by aspirants of average intellect.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005070500301600.htm&date=2005/07/05/&prd=br& (291 words)

	Brahma Sutras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Brahma sutra is the nyaya prasthana, the logical text that sets forth the philosophy systematically (nyaya - logic/order).
		Swami Sivananda's complete translation and commentary on Brahma Sutras.
		Swami Sivananda's section of Brahma Sutras refuting Buddhism, Jainism and other schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brahma_Sutras (536 words)

	Advaita Vedanta - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His main works are the Brahma Bhashyas, which are commentaries on the Brahma Sutras, a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita in nondualist strains, and his own treatise on Advaita, the Viveka Choodamani/Viveka Chudamani.
		His treatises on the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta Sutras are testaments to a keen and intuitive mind that did not want to admit dogma but advocated reason.
		Advaita Vedanta is commonly misapprehended as an intellectual philosophy, whereas it is quite practical, seeking to mold the body and mind back into a purer state of being.
	smartybrain.com /index.php/Advaita (1653 words)

	Brahma-Sutras
		The philosophy of non-dualism, embodying the conclusions of Vedanta, seems to have influenced to a greater or lesser degree all the philosophies and religions of India.
		Badarayana shows that the Vedantic texts harmoniously teach Brahman as the plenary Reality, the world-ground which is of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, which is the supreme object of meditation, and which is the final goal to be realised.
		According to Vedanta, Brahman is the substratum, the sole and the whole cause of the universe.
	www.hinduism.co.za /brahma-s.htm (573 words)

	The Darsanas
		The Vedanta is an amplification and fulfilment of the Sankhya.
		The Vedanta philosophy explains in detail the nature of Brahman or the Eternal Being, and shows that the individual soul is, in essence, identical with the Supreme Self.
		By practice of Vedanta, one reaches the highest rung of the ladder of spirituality or the pinnacle of divine glory, oneness with the Supreme Being, by the destruction of ignorance (Avidya).
	www.sivanandadlshq.org /religions/darsanas.htm (1445 words)

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		The cryptic aphorisms of the Vedanta Sutras are open to a variety...
		The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana are one of the six Darshanas from...
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	Vedanta on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By extension it is the name given to those philosophical schools that base themselves on the Brahma Sutras (also called the Vedanta Sutras) of Badarayana (early centuries AD), which summarize the Upanishadic doctrine.
		The best-known and most influential of the schools of Vedanta is that of Shankara (AD 788-820), known as the nondualist or advaita Vedanta.
		The dualist or dvaita Vedanta of Madhva (1197-1276) attacked the monistic followers of Shankara and defended a pluralist standpoint.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/vedanta.asp (586 words)

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