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meaning of the Vedas and the Upanisads. His follower Vedāntadeśika (or Venkatanatha, A.D. 1268-1369) has also commented upon some of them. His commentary on the Isa Upanisad has been published from Kanjeevaram (in 194-41). He also has, to his credit, the tīkā on Taittiriya Upanisad, known as 'pañjikā.
After this brief and somewhat unsystematic survey of some of the major Upanisads (and the Bhagavadgītā), we may say that the unitary principle is their foremost concern. The non-difference of the individual and the Absolute is the principal teaching of these upaniṣads. Although we find theistic overtones also in some of the upaniṣads (e.g., The Svetasvatara Upanisad and the Bhagavadgita), the close relation, nay, the identity, between the self and the Brahman is stated and underlined in unambiguous terms in most of the texts discussed here.
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