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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Vedânta}}'''. A mystic system of philosophy which has developed from the efforts of generations of sages to interpret the secret meaning of the'' Upanishads (q.v.)''. It is called in the ''Shad‐Darshanas'' (six schools or systems of demonstration), ''Uttara Mîmânsâ'', attributed to ''Vyâsa'', the compiler of the ''Vedas'', who is thus referred to as the founder of the Vedânta. The orthodox Hindus call Vedânta_a term meaning literally the “end of all (Vedic) knowledge ” — ''Brahmâ‐jnâna'', or pure and spiritual knowledge of Brahmâ. Even if we accept the late dates assigned to various Sanskrit schools and treatises by our Orientalists, the Vedânta must be 3,300 years old, as Vyâsa is said to have lived I,400 years B.C. If, as Elphinstone has it in his ''History of India'', the ''Brahmanas ''are the ''Talmud'' of the Hindus, and the ''Vedas ''the Mosaic books, then the ''Vedânta'' may be correctly called the ''Kabalah'' of India. But how vastly more grand! Sankarâchârya, who was the popularizer of the Vedântic system, and the founder of the ''Adwaita'' philosophy, is sometimes called the founder of the modern schools of the Vedânta.

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