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 IV, Section II, Introduction

Adhikarana summary: Introduction

In the previous section it was shown that by the destruction of actions which have not as yet begun to yield results a knower of Brahman attains Jivan-mukti, and that on the exhaustion of the Prarabdha work he attains Videhamukti at death and becomes one with Brahman. Thus in a general way the result of Knowledge has been set forth. The remaining three sections deal at length with the nature of Liberation, which is attained on the exhaustion of the Prarabdha Karma. In this particular section the path of the gods, by which the knower of the Saguna Brahman travels after death, is described. With this end in view it begins with the exposition of the successive steps by which the soul passes out of the body at death.

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