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 the Highest Imperishable
This chapter describes Brahman is the Highest Imperishable located on page 227 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: aksaradhikaranam or aksaradhikarana (aksara-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)
Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary) [by Roma Bose]
Thus, from the knowledge, called ‘higher ,—mentioned in the passage: ‘The higher is that whereby that Imperishable is apprehended (Mundaka-upanishad 1.1.5),—it is gathered that the Imperishable is the Highest Brahman alone, since no other knowledge, except that of Brahman, can be high....
Read full contents: Brahma-Sutra 1.2.22
Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya) [by George Thibaut]
On the other hand, the term 'knowledge of Brahman' would become meaningless if that Imperishable which is to be comprehended by means of it were not Brahman....
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