The Vedānta which is the major school of Hindu philosophy is based primarily upon revealed texts— the Upaṇiṣads, which are the revelations of enlightened sages or mystics called Rishis, but the teachings derived from them and the theological and philosophical systems grounded on these ‘revelations’ are subjected to rigorous semantic analysis and reasoned debate. So the Hindu approach is one in which revelation is subjected to rigorous logical analysis to produce the doctrines upon which practice is then based. Thus all Hindu philosophers/theologians are required to study logic (nyāya) and exegesis (mīmāṃsa) prior to their excursion into the Vedānta. According to Śaṅkarācārya the study of exegesis is an essential pre-requisite to the study of Vedānta.
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