Brahma Sutras (Critical Exposition)
author: B. N. K. Sharma
edition: 2008, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1835
ISBN-10: 8121500354
ISBN-13: 9788121500357
Topic: Hindu-philosophy
Fire and Water spring from Brahman
This chapter describes Fire and Water spring from Brahman located on page 161 of volume 2 in the book Brahma Sutras (Critical Exposition) compiled by B. N. K. Sharma. This book contains a Critical Exposition of the Brahmasutras of Badarayana including a thorough research on the commentaries of Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva. The Vedanta Sutras represent an important treatise of Indian Philosophy teaching Vedic concepts as found in the Upanishads..
Sanskrit name of chapter: tejo’dhikaranam abadhikaranam or tejo’dhikaranam abadhikarana (tejo’dhikaranam aba-adhikarana / adhikaranam). This edition includes the original Sanskrit text, an English translation, references to commentaries, detailled footnotes, IAST transliterated words and a large index.
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Chandogya Upanishad (Madhva commentary) [by Srisa Chandra Vasu]
Where the night overtook them, he lighted a fire, penned the cows, placed fuel on the fire, and sat down behind the fire, looking to the east (meditating on the words of the Bull).—263. [Note.—Iti, thus. The Bull having declared one quarter of Brahman, said, “Thy fire, i.e., the deity of fire, will tell one quarter of Brahman.” So saying he went away.] Note.—It appears that the house of the teacher was at a great distance, for it took four days to reach it....
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Mahabharata (English) [by Kisari Mohan Ganguli]
Earth, mountains, clouds, and all things which have form, should all be known as transformations of water. They have all been produced by the solidification of that element. Bharadvaja said, How did water spring? How Fire and Wind? How also was the earth created? I have great doubts on these points....
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
That supreme Brahman which is described in the Vedantic Upanishads—of that the Preceptor is the ‘embodiment’—i.e., he is as it were the very image of Brahman. ‘The father is the embodiment of Prajapati’—i.e., Hiranyagarbha. The mother is the same as this earth,—both being equally capable; of bearing burdens. ‘One’s own’—i.e., uterine—‘brother is the embodiment of the self’—the conscious entity within the body....
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