Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary)
by Roma Bose | 1940 | 290,526 words
English translation of the Brahma-sutra 2.2.35, 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 2.2.35
English of translation of Brahmasutra 2.2.35 by Roma Bose:
“Nor also is there non-contradiction on account of modification, on account of change and the best.”
Nimbārka’s commentary (Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha):
It cannot be said also that the soul is possessed of parts which are subject to increase and decrease and hence there is no contradiction,—for then there will result the faults of change and the rest (on the part of the soul).
Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)
If it be said: The soul, according to us, is possessed of parts. There is an increment of its parts in the body of an elephant, and decrement in a small body. Thus “on account of modification”, there is no contradiction”,—(we reply:) This cannot be said. Why? “On account of change and the rest,” i.e. because there will then result faults like change and the rest. If the soul be possessed of parts, on your view, then it must be mutable like the body and the rest and also non-etemal,—such and other faults would arise.