vedAnta

Q) What is Vedanta?

The word Vedanta is formed by the conjugation of two words veda + anta = vedAnta. Anta means end while veda is derived from the root word vid meaning knowledge. Hence, Vedanta means end of knowledge. So, how can we understand the end of knowledge? The end of knowledge means where the intellect stops and no phenomenon which can be understood by the mind can take us to Vedanta. So, the end of knowledge is that stage where all knowledge ends, there is nothing which can be expressed. So Vedanta is the state which is inexpressible. Hence Vedanta means the avyakta and this can exist when one is aware of that avyakta, the ever existing One. Hence, Vedanta is not a noun, it is a verb where it is existence in that One state. It is Being. Being in that NO-THING state is Vedanta. It is a state which cannot be achieved. It is a state which need to aware of as it is ever existing.

(24 August 2011)