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 ...
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10. And Smṛti-passages say the same.
Authoritative authors also teach in their Smṛtis that a sitting posture subserves the act of meditation: cp. e.g. Bha. Gītā VI. 11,--Having made a firm seat for one's self on a pure spot.' For the same reason the Yogaśāstra teaches different sitting posture, viz. the so-called lotus position and so on.