A family of interpretive schools centered on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.
Vedanta is not a single doctrine but a family of interpretive schools that share a set of foundational texts while disagreeing sharply about how to read them.
The schools grouped under Vedanta return to a common core — chiefly the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita — yet reach very different conclusions about the relationship between the self and ultimate reality. Presenting these as one uniform "philosophy" would be misleading.
Each sub-school's position is documented descriptively as commentary, attributed to its proponents, and never presented as the settled meaning of the underlying texts.
A 700-verse philosophical dialogue set within the Mahabharata, addressing duty, action, and the nature of the self.
A cluster of ideas around duty, order, and right conduct that is understood differently across Indian traditions.
Liberation or release, framed as the ultimate aim in several Indian traditions — with each defining what it means differently.