Thursday, October 18, 2007

vedanta




VEDANTA



Vedanta is one of the ancient speculative systems of India that  have  wider popularity. The system is found on the sacred literature called Upanishads. later on many systems sprang out of it. Today vedanta is a huge tree having plenty of branches. The significance of vedanta never ends with this. It was the ideology that lead the founders of modern India. Now a days scholars are approaching the system from different angles. Thy include post- colonialism, post-modernism, etc which takes away the genuine development of modern vedanta from the traditional vedanta to the domain of hybridity. It is cultural colonialism of a new kind that invades into the cultural identity of a once colonized territory.