Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya)
by George Thibaut | 1890 | 203,611 words
English translation of the Brahma sutras (aka. Vedanta Sutras) with commentary by Shankaracharya (Shankara Bhashya): One of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. The Brahma sutra is the exposition of the philosophy of the Upanishads. It is an attempt to systematise the various strands of the Upanishads which form the ...
III, 4, 37
37. This is stated in Smṛti also.
It is recorded in itihāsas also how Saṃvarta and others who paid no regard to the duties incumbent on the āśramas, in going naked and so on, became great Yogins all the same.--But the instances quoted from scripture and Smṛti furnish merely indicatory marks; what then is the final conclusion?--That conclusion is stated in the next Sūtra.