Isavasyopanisad Bhasyam- Commentary on Isavasyopanisat: Complete Works of Sri Madhvacarya the Sarvamula Grantha Series Commentary and Critical Study by P Vinayacharya (Volume- 5)

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The upanișads have the cream of philosophy in the Vedic corpus, which heighten the spiritual insight of the aspirant. These are the portions which deliberate upon the supreme independent reality, the wonder of nature factually regulated by a divine force, the esoteric meditative practices leading to the inner vision of the divine, and many wonderful concepts.

The Išavasyopanişat is rich with many philosophical concepts, in simple and understandable vocabulary. It begins with the note:

"iśāvāsyamidam sarvam..."

The entire world has the presence of Lord within it. The Lord regulates the entire universe comprising of eternal and non-eternal things, by his divine blissful sport, with his spiritual body.

Dr. P. Vinay (respectfully addressed as Vinayacharya as per the tradition), M.A, Vidwat (Dvaita Vedanta), Ph.D, D.Litt. is an authority on the Dvaita School of Vedanta of Sri Madhvācārya. He has authored many original works in Sanskrit and English on Vedanta and other philosophical subjects. He is currently the Assistant Professor in the Department of Vedanta in Karnataka Samskrit University (KSU), Bangalore, India and also the Head of the Department of Vedanta. Dr. Vinayacharya is bestowed with the prestigious Prof. Hiriyanna Award for best Indology book.

The works of Sri Madhvācārya are traditionally hailed as the sarvamüla-granthas for many significant reasons. The works of the Acarya are full of all basic and esoteric concepts of Vedanta mirrored in the tattvavada or dvaita-Vedanta school. The works are full of quotations from many Vedic and allied texts which are the basis of all branches of philosophy. Together with these aspects, the works of Śrī Madhvācārya are the ones which paved the way for all other works of later writers of the dvaita-Vedanta tradition. In all these senses and much more, the works of Śrī Madhvācārya carry the befitting title of the "sarvamüla-granthas"

The Vedas are the most ancient and foundational revelations of philosophical vision which continue to draw the attention of seekers of knowledge and enlightenment. Barring a few minor repulsions to the time-spelt practices and others attributed to the Vedic lore, the Vedic representation of philosophy is by and large accepted as a divine spring of lofty philosophy. Some deem it as spiritual, others as philosophical treatise, yet others as symbolic ritualism and many more as even poetry with matured ideas of world, nature and God. All these are true without expelling any of these features, making the Vedas a grand flow of philosophy, sweeping a person with the nectar of sublime thoughts. The Vedas are held by the Vedanta schools as impersonal (apauruseya) and revealed by God to deserving souls from time to time. The hymns, word-order and even intonations and all are considered as totally intact and eternal for all time traditionally. The grandeur of the Vedas are no way less in affirmation to this concept of traditionalists. The symbolic, archaic (Vedic) cryptic philosophical language of the Vedas has brought the necessity of commentaries on the Vedas even from the period of sūtra millennium, before the Common Era. The more structured and Vedanta-bound commentaries, however, appeared in the first and early second millennium of the Common Era.