Brahma Sutras (Shankara Bhashya)
by Swami Vireshwarananda | 1936 | 124,571 words | ISBN-10: 8175050063
This is the English translation of the Brahma-sutras including the commentary (Bhashya) of Shankara. The Brahma-sutra (or, Vedanta-sutra) is one of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy and represents an early exposition the Vedantic interpretation of the Upanishads. This edition has the original Sanskrit text, the r...
Chapter IV, Section I, Adhikarana X
Adhikarana summary: Good deeds likewise cease to affect the knower of Brahman
Sutra 4,1.14
इतरस्याप्येवमसंश्लेषः, पाते तु ॥ १४ ॥
itarasyāpyevamasaṃśleṣaḥ, pāte tu || 14 ||
itarasya—Of the other; api—also; evam—thus; asaṃśleṣaḥ—non-clinging; pāte—at death; tu—but.
14. Thus there is non-clinging o£ the other (i.e. virtue) also; but at death (Liberation i.e. Videhamukti is certain).
As a knower of Brahman has no idea of agency he is not affected by good deeds also. He goes beyond vice and virtue. “He overcomes both” (Brih. 4. 4. 22). And as he is not touched by vice or virtue after illumination, and as his past sins are destroyed by Knowledge, his Liberation at death is certain.