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Upanishads : " The Cream of Vedas"
Vedanta ( Veda +anta i.e; the end of Vedas ) as the literal meaning connotes comprises the philosophical portion of Vedas, called the Upanishads.
Of about 280 Upanishads unearthed so far, 108 have been accepted as authorised texts , and out of them have been commented upon by great Acharyas lika Sri Sankaracharya , Sri Ramanjacharya, Sri Madhavacharya and thus are classified as major.

The Center of Life reigning in us, this seat of Consciousness is to be penetrated, say the Sruti, by ourselves with our mind.

In Vedantham, mind and intellect are considered to be one and te same stuff and it has different names, only to indicate its different functions.

With the intellect to discriminate and separate the dead-matter from the dynamic Spirit, is the 'Vedantha-Sadhana' for the intellect, which is fulfilled only when we seek and establish our identity with the Spirit.

Feel, Feel, Feel----- Feel the Eternal Nature of the Spirit which is All-pervading, All-perfect and All-full.

This is the method of 'Vedantham meditation' --- know, feel, expand and realize.

How to penetrate is explained below in the subsequent two famous mantram-s.

The voiceless enthusiasm and irrepressible anxiety of Guru is palpably evident in his emphatic repetition when he says, "Penetrate It, O my friend."

Mantram-6.
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Esa Sarvesvara esa sarvajna eso-'ntaryamy-esa
yonith sarvasya prabha-vapyayau hi bhutanam.
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word by meaning : -
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esah - this one;
sarvesvarah - is the ruler of all;
easah sarvahnah - this ( is ) Omniscient;
esah antaryami - this ( is ) all Knower;
easah yonih - this ( is ) the Source;
sarvasya - of all;
prabhava apyayau - origin and dissolution;
hi - verily;
bhutanam - of all beings.
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The sum of Mantram : -
"This is the Lord of all, this is the Knower of all, this is the inner Controller, this is the Source of all.
And, this is that from which all things originate and in which they finally dissolve themselves."
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