Reject false Vedantists; go directly to Krishna and His authorized commentaries for genuine spiritual knowledge.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: ...for answers to these questions. Prabhupāda: What they will answer? What do they know? All rascals. Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you speak perfectly. Prabhupāda: The scientist agrees? [laughter] Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Śrīla Prabhupāda, I have spoken to Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja today about the...
They do not know what is Vedānta. But the things are going on that people want to be bluffed, and the bluffers take advantage of it, and therefore... Veda means knowledge, and anta means end of knowledge. That is the combination of Vedānta.
So in the Vedānta the beginning is, Vedānta-sūtra, athāto brahma-jijñāsāḥ: "Now, in the human form of life, they should inquire about the Absolute Truth." That is the Vedānta philosophy. And what is that Absolute Truth? Sūtra means in aphorism, in small words, a big philosophy is given. That is called sūtra.
A little link. So Vedānta-sūtra begins when one is inquisitive to understand the Absolute Truth. That is called Vedānta-sūtra. And it is answered, first question is now about brahma-jijñāsa, inquisitive, inquiry about Brahman.
So Brahman is, in nutshell, described: "Brahman means the origin of everything." Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. And in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyam [Bg 15.15]. All the Vedas, all the book of knowledge, their business is how to search out God. Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ. So the whole Vedānta is description of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
But because in this Kali-yuga people will not be able to study Vedānta nicely on account of lack of education, therefore Vyāsadeva personally wrote a commentary on the Vedānta. That commentary is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Bhāṣyaṁ brahma-sūtrānam. [Garuḍa Purāṇa, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya 25.143] The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the real commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra written by the author himself.
The Vedānta-sūtra is also given by Vyāsadeva, and under the instruction of Nārada, his spiritual master... [aside: Get this light on.] ...he wrote commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. That is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also begins with the same aphorism, janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñāh sva-rāṭ [SB 1.1.1].