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
Brahman is Neither Unknowable nor Inexpressible
This chapter describes Brahman is Neither Unknowable nor Inexpressible located on page 86 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..
Sanskrit name of chapter: iksatyadhikaranam or iksatyadhikarana (iksati-adhikarana / adhikaranam). This edition includes the original Sanskrit text, an English translation, references to commentaries, detailled footnotes, IAST transliterated words and a large index.
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Chandogya Upanishad (Madhva commentary) [by Srisa Chandra Vasu]
He who knows it thus, and meditates on the quarter of Brahman, consisting of four-sixteenths, by the name of Prakashavat, becomes full of light in this world. He attains luminous worlds, whoever knows this and meditates on the quarter of Brahman, consisting of the four-sixteenths, by the name of Prakashavat.—262. Mantra 4.6.1. 1. Thy Agni will declare to you another quarter of Brahman. (Thus saying Vayu went away). He, when the morrow came, (drove the cows towards the house of the teacher)....
Read full contents: Fourth Adhyaya, Fourth through Ninth Khandas (23 mantras)
Thirty minor Upanishads [by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar]
It is Brahman, is adhyatma (or the deity presiding as Atma) and is the highest seat of Vishnu. It is inconceivable, of the nature of Cidatma and above the akash, is void and non-void, and beyond the void, and is abiding in the heart. There is (in It) neither meditation nor meditator, nor the meditated, nor the non-meditated. It is not the universe. It is the highest space; it is neither supreme nor above the supreme. It is inconceivable, unknowable, non-truth, and not the highest....
Read full contents: Tejobindu Upanishad of Krishna-yajurveda, Chapter I
Bhagavatpadabhyudaya by Lakshmana Suri (study) [by Lathika M. P.]
According to him the relation between Brahman and the world is indefinable, anirvacaniya. He says that the world resides in Brahman like the illusion of a snake in the rope. Maya is our persistent tendency which regard appearance as reality. It is our ignorance (avidya) that cannot distinguish difference between appearance and reality. Ignorance is the foundation of maya. According to ahankara, maya is beginningless, endless, unthinkable and inexpressible....
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