Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya)
by George Thibaut | 1890 | 203,611 words
English translation of the Brahma sutras (aka. Vedanta Sutras) with commentary by Shankaracharya (Shankara Bhashya): One of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. The Brahma sutra is the exposition of the philosophy of the Upanishads. It is an attempt to systematise the various strands of the Upanishads which form the ...
III, 4, 4
4. Because scripture directly states that.
'What a man does with knowledge, faith and the Upaniṣad is more powerful' (Ch. Up. I, 1, 10): this passage directly states that knowledge is subordinate to work[1], and from this it follows that mere knowledge cannot effect the purpose of man.
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[1]:
For the instrumental case 'vidyayā' directly represents knowledge as a means of work.