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the ways ol Karma yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Prapatti Yoga to Arjuna on the battle field of Kurukṣetra and makes him fight the battle of life without rāga and dveṣa and attain His feet by prapatti.
The teachings contained in the Upaniṣads have been systematised and stated in an aphoristic manner by Bādarāyana or Vyāsa in his Brahmasūtras. This is the main text-book of Vedānta. This is interpreted in different ways by different commentators and thus arose several schools of Vedānta. The most important of these are Viśiṣtādvaita, Advaita, Dvaita and Pāśupata. Śankarācārya is the chief exponent of Advaita philosophy, Rāmānujācārya of Viśiṣtādvaita philosophy, and Pūrnaprajnācārya of Dvaita philosophy and Śrikantha of Pāśupata philosophy.
According to Advaita philosophy, Brahman alone is real and everything else, like the self (knower) and Īśvara and the world (knowable) and knowledge, is unreal; Brahman is nirviśeṣa and pure consciousness. Nirviśeṣa means undifferentiated. Three kinds of differences are possible; difference between similar things, like the individuals of a class; difference between things of different kinds and difference which exists in the thing itself i.e., between it and its qualities. There is no difference between Brahman and the Jīvas which are both of the form of cit. Īśvara is Brahman reflected in māya 39