The Three Ācāryas: India's Greatest Vedanta Philosophers
Many scholars and realised souls have commented upon Vedanta’s Prasthana Trayee. But very rarely has there been an attempt to reconcile all three texts into a single mould. In the history of India, only three people have been accorded that recognition.
The ancient seers of India in their search for the eternal truth that forms the very basis of creation, being dissatisfied with the anthropomorphic conception, gave up searching for the Divine in the outer world of sense and matter, and turned their attention to the inner world.
Is there an inner world? And what is it? Many a seer ruminated on these inner quests, and over thousands of years created a whole mass of literature grouped under the term Vedanta.
And as time progressed the mass of accumulated information had to be condensed and structured in order that posterity can retain it.
What constitues Vedantic philosophy?
The vast literature of the Vedas led to the creation of the Upaniśads and they to the Brahma Sutras and finally to the famous song celestial, the ‘Bhagavad Gita’. Vedanta as in vogue today is based on what is known as Prasthana Trayee, the three texts of knowledge for emancipation. These are: