Brahma Sutras (Shankara Bhashya)
by Swami Vireshwarananda | 1936 | 124,571 words | ISBN-10: 8175050063
This is the English translation of the Brahma-sutras including the commentary (Bhashya) of Shankara. The Brahma-sutra (or, Vedanta-sutra) is one of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy and represents an early exposition the Vedantic interpretation of the Upanishads. This edition has the original Sanskrit text, the r...
Chapter II, Section II, Introduction
Adhikarana summary: Introduction
In the last section all arguments against Brahman being the First Cause have been answered. In this section all the doctrines of the other schools are taken up for refutation through reasoning alone without reference to the authority of the Vedas.
īn the last Sutra it has been shown that Brahman possesses all the attributes, though through Maya, for equipping It to be the First Cause of the universe. Now the question is taken up whether the Sankhyan Pradhana can satisfy all those conditions.