{"product_id":"the-five-schools-of-vedanta-a-philosophical-study-of-brahman-self-world-and-liberation-9798248862146","title":"The Five Schools of Vedanta: A Philosophical Study of Brahman, Self, World, and Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bhaskar Bora\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Reference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is ultimately real?\u003cbr\u003eIs the individual self identical with Brahman - or eternally distinct from it?\u003cbr\u003eIs the world an illusion, a transformation of God, or a real and irreducible creation?\u003cbr\u003eWhat does liberation truly mean?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVedanta is often presented as a single philosophy - usually reduced to the claim that \"all is one.\" The historical reality is far more complex and far more intellectually demanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Five Schools of Vedanta\u003c\/b\u003e is a rigorous philosophical study of the five great interpretive traditions that emerged from the same canonical texts - the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita - yet arrived at radically different conclusions about the nature of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough careful analysis of: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvaita (Shankara)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eVishishtadvaita (Ramanuja)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eDvaita (Madhva)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eDvaitadvaita (Nimbarka)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eShuddhadvaita and Achintya Bhedabheda traditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis book stages the internal argument of Vedanta itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than presenting a simplified synthesis, Dr Bhaskar Bora reconstructs each school with intellectual seriousness, examining their divergent answers to four foundational questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- What is Brahman?\u003cbr\u003e- What is the individual self?\u003cbr\u003e- What is the ontological status of the world?\u003cbr\u003e- What is liberation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is not a devotional manual, nor a popular spirituality text, but a philosophical reckoning with one of the most sophisticated metaphysical traditions in human history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of comparative philosophy, Hindu philosophy, non-duality studies, and serious theology, this book offers something rare: a full account of Vedanta's internal diversity - without reduction, without polemic, and without simplification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47776495861911,"sku":"9798248862146","price":1755.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798248862146.webp?v=1777996530","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-five-schools-of-vedanta-a-philosophical-study-of-brahman-self-world-and-liberation-9798248862146","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}