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 ...
IV, 3, 11
Smṛti also agrees with this view; cp. the following passage, 'When the pralaya has come and the end of the highest (i.e. Hiraṇyagarbha), then they all, together with Brahman, with purified minds enter the highest place.'--The final conclusion (siddhānta) therefore is that the going of the souls, of which scripture speaks, has for its goal the effected Brahman.--But what is the primā facie view, with regard to which this final conclusion has been established in Sutras 7-11?--This required primā facie view is now set forth in the following Sūtras.