Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary)

by Roma Bose | 1940 | 290,526 words

English translation of the Brahma-sutra 2.2.17, 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 2.2.17

English of translation of Brahmasutra 2.2.17 by Roma Bose:

“And because of non-acceptance, (there must be an) absolute disregard (for the atomic theory).”

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

Because of the rejection of atomism by the wise, “an absolute disregard” for it is to be shown by those who are desirous of salvation.

Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)

Certain portions,—such as the doctrine of a pre-existent cause and the rest,—of the doctrine of the causality of pradhāna, though rejected on the ground of its opposition to Scripture and reasoning, has been accepted by those who are versed in the Veda. But “because of the non-acceptance”, i.e. rejection, by the wise, in toto, of the doctrine of the causality of the atoms, imagined by the Vaiśeṣikas; because of its opposition to reasoning; and because of its opposition to the Veda, “there is an absolute disregard”,—i.e. the doctrine of the causality of atoms is to be disregarded by those who wish for the highest.

Hence it is established that there is no contradiction of the doctrine of the causality of Brahman by the doctrine of the causality of atoms which is to be rejected from a distance.

Here ends the section entitled “The great and the long” (2).

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