A Short Introduction to Vedanta

If philosophy is but life brought to the focus of self-consciousness, then, clearly, Vedanta is the native philosophy of India” – Max Muller.

The fundamental idea of the Vedanta have pervaded the whole of the Indian literature, have leavened the whole of their language, and form to the present day the common property of the people at large. In fact, Vedanta has, through the ages, gone on embodying the inmost stirring of the souls of India.