The Young Advaita

Dear Jeyamohan

Lately I read your excellent article on Vedanta. I was thrilled to read it. As a young man, I had the impression that Vedanta is a religious school belonging to a certain old type of people. I understand that Vedanta has been around for thousands of years, and I perceive this as its primary disadvantage. I thought, how can an old philosophy be useful to a modern man like me?

But this article gave me a sudden understanding. Philosophy has a nucleus in it; it is vision. The vision is timeless. If a philosophy can rearrange itself completely according to the period it is addressing and still logically maintain the core vision of it, it is the perfect answer for basic questions. This is due to the time-tested nature of the core vision and the time-bounded logic of the philosophy.

The resurgence of Vedanta in Indian culture and thought is a remarkable phenomenon. I decided to read it in this new light. I have to read Vedanta like any other contemporary philosophy. Thanking you

Savanth