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HPI 23 - Source Code - Badarayana’s Vedanta-sutra

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Vedanta Sutra and the Upanishads

Vedanta Sutra reads sacred texts as putting forward a single doctrine centering on the concept of Brahman. This Brahman-centric approach was controversial, and rejected by other Brahmanical schools. Vedantans joined Upanishads as fundamental sources of wisdom into nature of Brahman; Shankara commented on Bhagavad Gita in same way. Bharatayana thinks that even the gods can achieve liberation by knowing Brahma whereas Jaimini restricts this to humans.

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