The Fundamentals of Vedanta

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Blazing Sapphire Press

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Vedanta is one of the six orthodox philosophical schools of the Hindu tradition, orthodox because they profess to accept the authority of the ancient Vedas as revelation. Vedanta is the school that attempts to discover in the final portions of the Vedic texts, known as the Upanishads, a consistent religious and philosophical way of seeing reality tattva-darshana). The school of Vedanta is really a family of schools, all of its members sharing the belief that there is a single consistent way of seeing presented in the Upanishads, but whose hermeneutic efforts often have led to radically different conclusions. Within this family of Vedantic schools the spectrum ranges from the absolute monism, or more correctly the non-dualism, of the Advaita sub-school to the quasi-dualistic theism of the Dvaita sub-school. Fundamentals of Vedanta, Part One is a translation, with a detailed introduction and notes, of two short Sanskrit texts, the Vedanta-sara (Essence of Vedanta) of Sadananda and the Prameya-ratnavali (Necklace of Turht-Jewels) of Baladeva, from opposite ends of the Vedantic spectrum, that have been used in India for centuries to introduce beginning students to the fundamental ideas of Vedanta. Generations of Indian students received their first exposure to Vedantic ideas from one or both of these texts, and thus they form an excellent starting point for modern readers who are interested in knowing more about the rich intellectual and religious world of Vedanta.From the Introduction: ``Anyone who has walked, either actually or sympathetically, some distance down the path of Advaita Vedanta, far enough at least to get a glimpse of the Advaitins world, will be able to attest to what a powerful vision of reality it is and to what a relief and joy the transforming experience of Brahman must be. As part of that experience the burden of ones fears, disappointments, anxieties, losses, frustrations, and limitations is lifted off ones shoulders and one realizes

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