THE VEDANTA in the recent past has seen a reorientation which marks it as a philosophy of culture--a peculiar turn for ?arhkara Vedinta. Radhakrishnan has been a major force in giving this new direction to the Veddnta. He is a philosopher of a new East-West cultural synthesis, and the Vedinta is the soil into which the roots of this synthesis are stuck. The history of this process of reconstruction has been the history of the