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Any doctrine or siddhanta about Brahman involves theories explaining certain common groups of questions
Any doctrine or siddhanta about Brahman involves theories explaining certain common groups of questions
* emergence, sustenance and dissolution of the world (ontology)
* emergence, sustenance and dissolution of the world (ontology)
* reality and authority of Universe, Atman, Brahman etc (metaphysics)
* what is real and the principles applying to Universe, Atman, Brahman etc (metaphysics)
* nature of things - sentient and insentient things
* nature of things - sentient and insentient things, Brahman and others.
* study of means of understanding knowledge, example Pramanas (epistemology)
* study of means of understanding knowledge, example Pramanas (epistemology)
* relationship between individual Jivatmas, the inanimate matter (Jagat), Supreme Being (Ishvara)
* relationship between individual Jivatmas, the inanimate matter (Jagat), Supreme Being (Ishvara)
* modes of attaining the final goal Moksha (soteriology)
* essence and value attributed to Brahman and other aspects of Vedanta (axiology)
'''Shvetasvatara Upanishad''' in the very first mantra puts forth these questions as deliberated by the Brahmavadins<blockquote>ॐ ब्रह्मवादिनो वदन्ति ।</blockquote><blockquote>किं कारणं ब्रह्म कुतः स्म जाता जीवाम केन क्व च सम्प्रतिष्ठा । अधिष्ठिताः केन सुखेतरेषु वर्तामहे ब्रह्मविदो व्यवस्थाम् ॥ १ ॥ (Shve. Upan. 1.1.1)</blockquote>Summary : People accustomed to deliberate on Brahman discuss : What is the nature of Brahman, the Source (किं कारणं ब्रह्म)? From what have been born (कुतः स्म जाता)? By what do we live (जीवाम केन)? And where do we exist, rest, at the time of dissoution (क्व च सम्प्रतिष्ठा)? O Knowers of Brahman, regulated by whom (अधिष्ठिताः केन) do we conform to the system regarding happiness and its opposite namely sorrows (सुखेतरेषु वर्तामहे)?
'''Shvetasvatara Upanishad''' in the very first mantra puts forth these questions as deliberated by the Brahmavadins<blockquote>ॐ ब्रह्मवादिनो वदन्ति ।</blockquote><blockquote>किं कारणं ब्रह्म कुतः स्म जाता जीवाम केन क्व च सम्प्रतिष्ठा । अधिष्ठिताः केन सुखेतरेषु वर्तामहे ब्रह्मविदो व्यवस्थाम् ॥ १ ॥ (Shve. Upan. 1.1.1)</blockquote>Summary : People accustomed to deliberate on Brahman discuss : What is the nature of Brahman, the Source (किं कारणं ब्रह्म)? From what have been born (कुतः स्म जाता)? By what do we live (जीवाम केन)? And where do we exist, rest, at the time of dissoution (क्व च सम्प्रतिष्ठा)? O Knowers of Brahman, regulated by whom (अधिष्ठिताः केन) do we conform to the system regarding happiness and its opposite namely sorrows (सुखेतरेषु वर्तामहे)?