Sūtra (
Sanskrit,
Devanagari सूत्र) or Sutta (
Pāli), literally means a rope or thread that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an
aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. It is derived from the verbal root siv-, meaning to sew (these words, including Latin suere and English to sew, all derive from
PIE *syū-). In
Hinduism the 'sutras' form a school of
Vedic study, related to and somewhat later than the
Upanishads. They served and continue to act as grand treatises on various schools of
Hindu Philosophy. They elaborate in succinct verse, sometimes esoteric, Hindu views of metaphysics, cosmogony, the human condition,
moksha (liberation), and how to maintain a blissful,
dharmic life, in a cosmic spin of
karma,
reincarnation and
desire.
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