TERMS AND CONCEPTS IN VEDANTA
Based on the
commentaries of Sri Sankaracharya
and other authoritative
texts
PRESENTATION BY
S.N.SASTRI
Statements expounding particular terms
and concepts in Vedanta
are found scattered
at different places in
the Upanishads and the commentaries
thereon. For example, if
we take the concept of
mukti (liberation), the answers
to questions such as, what
is mukti and what
are the means
to it, are found in
various places. It was
felt that if statements relating
to each topic were collected
and put together, that
would be of
considerable help in getting
a total view about that
topic.
This is the
task undertaken in this
work. This is not by any
means
an exhaustive collection
of all the statements relating
to any particular
topic. The attempt
has been to gather together
as much as is necessary
to get a
clear idea about each topic.
Another purpose that this
topic-wise grouping would serve
is to make it possible
to trace the
exact place
where a particular
point has been elucidated.
NOTE ON THE TRANSLITERATION SCHEME USED
HERE
The code
used here for transliteration
of Sanskrit words is the
ITRANS 4.0 used
for e-mail with a few
modifications. The Sanskrit
letters and special
signs are, represented in
order, as below :-
VOWELS :
a, aa, i,
ii, u, uu, r., r..,
l., l.., e, ai, o,
au.
CONSONANTS :
ka-varga--- k, kh,
g, gh, .n
cha-varga—ch, chh,
j, jh, nj
Ta-varga—T, TH, D,
DH, N
ta-varga--- t, th,
d, dh, n
pa-varga—p, ph, b,
bh, m
y, r, l,
v, s’, sh, s, h
visarga--H
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AND CONCEPTS