Brahma-Sūtra 1.3.23

English of translation of Brahmasutra 1.3.23 by Roma Bose:

“Moreover (this is) declared by Smṛti.”^[1]

Nimbārka’s commentary (Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha):

Also Smṛti declares: ‘They have come to attain equality of attributes with me’ (Gītā 14.2^[2]).

Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)

Smṛti declares the equality of the individual soul, freed from all bondage, with the Supreme Soul, in the passage: ‘They have come to attain equality of attributes with me’ (Gītā 14.2). Hence, it is established that the small ether is none but the Supreme Soul.

Here ends the section entitled ‘The small’ (5).

Comparative views of Śaṅkara and Bhāskara:

Reading different, viz. ‘Api ca smaryyate’. Interpretation different, viz.—‘Further, Smṛti (viz. Gītā 15.12, etc.) declares (the Soul to be the cause of the manifestation, of all)’.^[3]

Comparative views of Rāmānuja and Baladeva:

Reading: ‘Api smaryyate’.^[4]

Comparative views of Śrīkaṇṭha:

Reading: ‘Api ca smaryyate’, i.e. ‘Moreover Smṛti declares (that the Lord is to be meditated on as abiding in the heart-lotus^[5])’.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

[Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series] ed., p. 15, reads ‘Api smaryyate’.

[2]:

Quoted by Rāmānuja and Baladeva.

[3]:

Quoted by Śaṅkara and Baladeva 1.3.23, p. 343; Brahma-sūtras (Bhāskara’s Commentary) 1.3.23, p. 59.

[4]:

Śrī-bhāṣya (Madras edition) 1.3.23, p. 313, Part 1; Govinda-bhāṣya 1.3.23.

[5]:

Brahma-sūtras (Śrīkaṇṭha’s commentary) 1.3.23, p. 445, Part 5.