Brahma Sutras (Ramanuja)

by George Thibaut | 1904 | 275,953 words | ISBN-10: 8120801350 | ISBN-13: 9788120801356

The English translation of the Brahma Sutras (also, Vedanta Sutras) with commentary by Ramanuja (known as the Sri Bhasya). The Brahmasutra expounds the essential philosophy of the Upanishads which, primarily revolving around the knowledge of Brahman and Atman, represents the foundation of Vedanta. Ramanjua’s interpretation of these sutras from a V...

22. But (Brahman is) additional, on account of the declaration of difference.

The word 'but' sets aside the primā facie view. To the individual soul capable of connexion with the various kinds of pain there is additional, i.e. from it there is different, Brahman.—On what ground?—'Owing to the declaration of difference.' For Brahman is spoken of as different from the soul in the following texts:—'He who dwells in the Self and within the Self, whom the Self does not know, of whom the Self is the body, who rules the Self within, he is thy Self, the ruler within, the immortal' (Bṛ. Up. III, 7, 22); 'Knowing as separate the Self and the Mover, blessed by him he gains Immortality' (Śvet. Up. I, 6); 'He is the cause, the Lord of the lords of the organs' (i.e. the individual souls) (Śvet Up. VI, 9); 'One of them eats the sweet fruit; without eating the other looks on' (Śvet. Up. IV, 6); 'There are two, the one knowing, the other not knowing, both unborn, the one a ruler, the other not a ruler' (Śvet. Up. I, 9); 'Embraced by the prājña. Self (Bṛ. Up. IV, 3, 21); 'Mounted by the prājña. Self' (Bṛ. Up. IV, 3, 35); 'From that the ruler of māyā sends forth all this, in that the other is bound up through māyā (Śvet. Up. IV, 9); 'the Master of the Pradhāna and the souls, the lord of the guṇas' (Śvet. Up. VI, 16);'the eternal among eternals, the intelligent among the intelligent, who, one, fulfils the desires of many' (Śvet. Up. VI, 13); 'who moves within the Unevolved, of whom the Unevolved is the body, whom the Unevolved does not know; who moves within the Imperishable, of whom the Imperishable is the body, whom the Imperishable does not know; who moves within Death, of whom Death is the body, whom Death does not know; he is the inner Self of all beings, free from evil, the divine one, the one God, Nārāyaṇa'; and other similar texts.

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