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supreme philosophy of Brahman by knowing whom everything is known.
Each of these systems helps the mumukṣu or the seeker after Brahman to attain viveka, vairāgya and ethical purity respectively as essential steps to the attainment of Brahman.
The pramāṇas prove that Brahman is the highest object of knowledge. They affirm the reality of the supreme puruṣa. The highest dharma consists in attaining Him. This is the way of Vedānta as taught in the Upaniṣads, the Gitā and the Brahmasūtras which are called the three prasthanas. The Upaniṣads describe the direct experience of God by the Ṛṣis; the Gitā is the essence of the Upaniṣads and the Sūtras expound their philosophy.
The term darśana brings out the comprehensiveness of the Sanātana Dharma or Vedānta. Darśana ordinarily applies to knowledge gained through the senses or pratyakṣa as in the example, “This rose is red.” It is real and not illusory though it is particular and fleeting. The knowledge gained through reason or anumāna is more stable as it gives us some insight into the universal laws which explain the particular facts given in sense- perception. It is thus darśana in the sense of reasoning, as in the example, "The earth goes round the sun, because it is a planet." Higher than inference is intuition or direct knowledge of God or
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