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( 86 । Vedanta. and prote great conmentaries on the Prus thchatrajya, panisads, Brahmasutras and the Bhaga vadgita, besides nuany independent works. The credit of not only having saved the Vedanta philosophy from falling into cblivicn, not only restoring it to the place in our literature which it cleserved to cccupy and which it originally occupied but also making it a more respectable and more important and more valuable philosophy than any other one should go, there is no doubt. to Sankara. Twe are the main consiera ticrs which drove Gautapada and his successors to Advaita cf the type thcy prpounded and advocated. The purpose of vedanta is to help people that are anxious to attai Multi. liberation. Mukti once attained is said to be everlasting. A person once free will never get again entangled in Susrc=this wordly life. They thought it was a soutely impossible to maintain this position except by Advaita . It was said that Mault or nodslideans enjoy- ment of such pleasure as lies beyond the entire scope of speech and mind, pleasure undescribable and unim1- ginable, in the highest of the worlds. It is opposed to reason that a vprld could be everlasting. Any worla even the highest must be full of parts and diferences and so must have a beginning like this world of curs. Any thing that has a beginning must have an end. It could not be cverlasting. It may be a bigger or more durable heaven than that of the