Brahma Sutras (Critical Exposition)
author: B. N. K. Sharma
edition: 2008, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1835
ISBN-10: 8121500354
ISBN-13: 9788121500357
Topic: Hindu-philosophy
Nature, Scope and Purpose of Samanvaya
This chapter describes Nature, Scope and Purpose of Samanvaya located on page 21 of volume 1 in the book Brahma Sutras (Critical Exposition) compiled by B. N. K. Sharma. This book contains a Critical Exposition of the Brahmasutras of Badarayana including a thorough research on the commentaries of Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva. The Vedanta Sutras represent an important treatise of Indian Philosophy teaching Vedic concepts as found in the Upanishads..
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Shrimad Bhagavad-gita [by Narayana Gosvami]
At present, the word samanvaya is misused and misinterpreted. True harmony can only be found in Bhagavan. Fabricated conceptions can never be equated with harmony. Samanvaya-bhashyas (commentaries that claim to present a harmonious conclusion) on the Gita are now found in shops and bookstores, but it is neither concord (anvaya) nor synthesis (samanvaya) to say that the world is Parameshvara (the Supreme Lord) or that Parameshvara is the world....
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Preceptors of Advaita [by T. M. P. Mahadevan]
Vachaspatimishra concludes that there is no scope for any injunction at all in respect of Vedantic study, reflection and meditation. Vachaspatimishra comes to this conclusion on the authority of Shri Shankara’s text on the Samanvaya-sutra. There Shri Shankara observes: “For what purpose, then, are these texts like ‘the self is to be seen, heard,’ etc., which have the appearance of injunctions? We say that they are for turning one away from the objects of natural activity.”...
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Mimamsa interpretation of Vedic Injunctions (Vidhi) [by Shreebas Debnath]
This is the real nature of Veda. This nature matches with its definition given by the ancient sage Yajnavalkya. According to him, “pratyakshenanumitya va yastupayo na vidyate | enam vidanti vedena tasmad vedasya vedata ||” (The supernatural knowledge which can not be obtained through perception, inference etc., is obtained only from the Veda. So, the Veda is called ‘Veda )....
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