Buddhism and Vedanta are kindred spirits.
The great thing about Buddhism is that Buddha's teachings have survived almost unaltered from the time he taught it.
The Vedantic tradition is strong today due to people such as Ramana Maharishi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. The scriptures of Vedanta the Upanishads and Geeta have truth, untruth and myths all mixed up in them and are therefore hard to make use of.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa once remarked that reading the scriptures is like trying to eat sugar mixed with sand, when you don't even know what is sugar and what is sand.
With Buddhism there is much less sand that has come in the sugar.
The great thing about Buddhism is that Buddha's teachings have survived almost unaltered from the time he taught it.
The Vedantic tradition is strong today due to people such as Ramana Maharishi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. The scriptures of Vedanta the Upanishads and Geeta have truth, untruth and myths all mixed up in them and are therefore hard to make use of.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa once remarked that reading the scriptures is like trying to eat sugar mixed with sand, when you don't even know what is sugar and what is sand.
With Buddhism there is much less sand that has come in the sugar.
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