Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary)

by Roma Bose | 1940 | 290,526 words

English translation of the Brahma-sutra 2.2.5, 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 2.2.5

English of translation of Brahmasutra 2.2.5 by Roma Bose:

“And on account of the non-existence elsewhere, not like grass and the rest.”

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

Since there is no transformation of the grass and the rest, eaten by an ox, into the form of milk, it cannot be said that just as the grass and the rest, eaten by cows, etc. become milk by themselves, so the unmanifest, too, is transformed into the form of mahat and the rest.

Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)

If it be objected: Just as grass, water, etc. are transformed into the form of milk, so the unmanifest is transformed into the form of mahat and the rest, independently indeed of another efficient cause,—the author replies: “No”. This cannot be said. Why? “On account of the non-existence elsewhere,” i.e. because “elsewhere”, or in the case of oxen and the rest, other than that of cows, etc. there is no transformation of the grass, water and so on, eaten by them, into the form of milk. The particle “and” implies that since the transformation of the grass, etc., eaten by cows, into the form of milk is admitted to be due to an intelligent principle, likewise pradhāna, too, is transformed into the form of mahat and the rest as superintended by an intelligent principle alone, and not by itself.

Comparative views of Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha:

They change the order of the sūtras 5-9 which will be noticed at the end of sūtra 9. Interpretation same.

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