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...
Sutra 2.4.11
11. It is designated as having five functions like mind.
As desire, and so on, are not principles different from mind, although they are different functions and produce different effects—according to the text, 'Desire, purpose, doubt, faith, want of faith, firmness, absence of firmness, shame, reflection, fear—all this is mind' (Bṛ. Up. I,,5, 3); so, on the ground of the text, 'prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, udāna, samāna—all this is prāṇa' (ibid.), apāna and the rest must be held to be different functions of prāṇa only, not independent principles.—Here terminates the adhikaraṇa of what is 'a modification of air.'