वेदान्त का सार
The Essence of All Vedānta
Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
The Great Map of Indian Philosophy
Schools, arguments, and the persistent questions of a living tradition
A civilizational guide.
687
Pages
4
Parts
28
Chapters
2026
Year
“
Indian philosophy is not one position. It is a two-thousand-year conversation among people who took argument seriously enough to argue across lifetimes.
— from The Great Map of Indian Philosophy, Mukesh Bansal
Table of contents
What this volume contains
01
Part
I · Foundations
01What Indian Philosophy Is, and What It Is Not
02The Civilizational Atmosphere
03The Vedic World
04The Upaniṣadic Turn
05The Epics as Philosophy
06The Śramaṇa Moment
07The Six Darśanas as a System
08Pramāṇa, Darśana, Mokṣa
02
Part
II · The Classical Darśanas
01Nyāya — How to Know Without Lying to Yourself
02Vaiśeṣika — Taking Inventory of the World
03The Grammarians — Pāṇini, Bhartṛhari, and the Philosophy of Language
04Sāṃkhya — The Dualism of Witness and Nature
05Yoga — The Discipline of Stilling the Mind
06Mīmāṃsā — The Discipline of Reading Scripture
07The Bhagavad Gītā — Action at the Edge of Ruin
08Vedānta — The Fate of the Self Before the Absolute
09Navya-Nyāya — The Technical Summit
03
Part
III · The Śramaṇa Revolt
01Buddhism — The Courage to Abandon the Self
02Yogācāra — The Mind-Only Turn
03Jainism — The Many-Sidedness of Truth
04Cārvāka — The Materialist Option
05Ājīvika — The Lost Fatalism
04
Part
IV · The Later Flowering
01Kashmir Śaivism — The Non-Dualism of Recognition
02Rasa — The Philosophy of Aesthetic Experience
03Bhakti — The Philosophy of Devotional Intimacy
04Śaiva Siddhānta — The Tamil Theistic Tradition
05Tantra — The Body as Philosophy
06Traditions at the Margins
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