Jai Srila Prabhupada! Notes on Saddarsan prayojananudrsya na mandopi pravartate Metaphysics, natural philosophy, psychology,eschatology(after life) pramana, sambhanda, abhideya, prayojana Ch.3.14 world is atman © led to pantheism. Brhad 2.4.5 atman is the only reality(result © maya theory) 3.8.11 knowable subject within us 3.4.2 knowing subject, itself unknowable So upanisads have the illussory theoryabout world © to reconcile this idealism with practical reality of existence of the world some speculated pantheism, ©brahman entered the world as soul. svetasvatara theism © cit acit isvara pantheism resulted in materialism. different aspects of Absolute Truth are scattered in the upanisads hereand there unchronologically. It is ubsurd to say that what Samkara taught was the only doctrine of Upanisads. His is simply a double edged sword to defeat non vedic atheism ( one edge© Vedic, other© atheism) Buddhism and Jainism are philosophyical atheisms. But they raise Buddha and Jina respectively SUTRAS ©©©©©© Gautama .. Nyaya sutras .. prasastapada bhasya Kanada .. Vaisesika sutras.. Vatsayana bhasya Kapila .. Samkhya sutras .. Patanjali .. Yoga sutras .. Vyasa Jaimini .. Purva mimamsa .. Sabara swamin Vyasa .. Brahma sutras .. Vyasa(SB),Samkara,Nimbarka Visnu swami, Ramanuja, Madhva and Baladeva Ün ÜŒ ©2© Sri Madhva (not our acarya!) in sarva darsana samgraha © method for determining the purport of statements in the vedic literature: upakramopasamharavabhyaso'purvata phalam arthavadopapathi ca lingam tatparya nirnaye upakrama : beginning; upasamhara : end ; avabhyasa : repetition; apurvata : novelty; phalam : object; arthavada : interpretation upapathi : argument; lingam : method, sign; nirnaye:for deter mination.