Vedanta Atlas
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Understand the texts, the traditions, and the vocabulary; then find your way around the Atlas.

New to the Atlas itself? What is Vedanta Atlas?

At dusk, beneath the spreading canopy of a great tree, a row of students sits along a pillared veranda lit by small oil lamps, listening to their teacher at the far end; a stone well, a peacock and a flowering garden fill the courtyard, with hills under an orange sky beyond.

Start with the basics

New to Vedānta? Follow these steps in order, then open your first sūtra.

  1. Where does Vedānta fit?The Vedas, the Upaniṣads, and one map
  2. The Brahma SūtrasThe text the Atlas is built around
  3. How commentary arguesPūrvapakṣa, siddhānta, objections and replies
  4. Meet the three traditionsThree short guides, read in turnŚaṅkaraRāmānujaMadhva
  5. Open your first sūtraSūtra 1.1.1, in all three commentaries

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Texts and scripture

The Brahma Sūtras

Reading commentary

The traditions

Vocabulary

Using the Atlas

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