CONCEPTS OF EDUCATION

Traditionally Vedanta has three specific meanings or definitions. The first meaning or definition is in reference to the end parts of the Vedas which contain the Upanishads. The second definition is about a particular school or philosophy of Hinduism which goes by the same name. The third definition points to the end purpose or the final goal of the Vedas which is Brahman knowing Brahman or achieving liberation. Thus Vedanta has a literary definition a philosophical definition and a spiritual definition. In the following discussion we shall examine all the three definitions. Finally we will also discuss how some aspects of Vedanta agree with the discoveries of modern science.