Vedanta Sutras

Text ascribed to the sage Badarayana in
the third to fifth century B.C.E. Along
with the Upanishads and the Bhagavad
Gita, the Vedanta Sutras is one of the
three traditional sources for the Vedanta
school, one of the six schools of
traditional Hindu philosophy. The text
itself is a collection of 555 brief aphorisms (sutras), which are so terse that
they presuppose a commentary. The
sutras focus particularly on the ideas
about Brahman, hence their other
common name, the Brahma Sutra. In
content, the first section describes the
nature of Absolute Reality, the second
responds to objections and criticizes
other positions, the third details
the means to acquire knowledge, and
the fourth describes the benefits of
such knowledge.