Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary)
by Roma Bose | 1940 | 290,526 words
English translation of the Brahma-sutra 1.4.27, including the commentary of Nimbarka and sub-commentary of Srinivasa known as Vedanta-parijata-saurabha and Vedanta-kaustubha resepctively. Also included are the comparative views of important philosophies, viz., from Shankara, Ramanuja, Shrikantha, Bhaskara and Baladeva.
Brahma-Sūtra 1.4.27
English of translation of Brahmasutra 1.4.27 by Roma Bose:
“And because (Brahman) is celebrated to be the source.”
Nimbārka’s commentary (Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha):
And in the texts: ‘The source of beings which the wise see’ (Muṇḍaka-upaniṣad 1.1.6[1]), ‘The creator, the Lord, the person, the source of Brahma’ (Muṇḍaka-upaniṣad 3.1.3[2]), Brahman “is celebrated” by the word “source”. Hence, Brahman alone is the material cause.
Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)
“Because” in the texts: ‘The source of beings which the wise see’ (Muṇḍaka-upaniṣad 1.1.6), ‘The creator, the Lord, the person, the source of Brahma’ (Muṇḍaka-upaniṣad 3.1.3), ‘This is the source of all’ (Māṇḍ. 6), Brahman “is celebrated” by the word “source”, denoting the material cause,—the material cause is none but Brahman,—this is the sense. Hence, the doctrine of the Sāṃkhyas is not to be accepted, being opposed as it is to the Veda. It is established that Lord Kṛṣṇa alone, the sole topic of all the Vedas, different and non-different from the universe, the Highest Person, the Lord, and the Lord of all, is to be meditated on by one desirous of salvation as the non-different material and efficient cause of the universe.
Comparative views of Śaṅkara and Śrīkaṇṭha:
As before they do not take this adhikaraṇa to be directly connected with the refutation of the Sāṃkhya view, as Nimbārka does.[3]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Quoted by Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja., Bhāskara and Baladeva.
[2]:
Op. cit.
[3]:
Vide Vedānta-kaustubha 1.4.23, p. 142 and 1.4.27, p. 145. Kasi Sanskrit Series ed.