All these different theories which your different philosophers have put forth are like limiting cases of a general theory, the aduetic idea infinite existence. And under certain circumstances, in a certain way of thinking, each of those philosophies can be seen as subsets, or as in a biproduct, or not byproducts. Everything that is experienced and not experienced yet, everything that is possible, is an appearance of one undivided reality which you are not a part of it, not a fraction of it, whole of it.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Katha Upanishad, which is one of the most popular Upanishads. The scripture concerns the story of a young man who goes to the house of death to find out what happens after death. The reply describes the nature of reality and the meaning of life.