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 Within the small space in the Heart-lotus
This chapter describes Brahman is Within the small space in the Heart-lotus located on page 241 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: daharadhikaranam or daharadhikarana (dahara-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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Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary) [by Roma Bose]
The meaning of the text, according to us, is as follows: ‘what is within ‘this city of Brahman ,—i.e. within the body which is the abode where the individual soul, a part of Brahman, enjoys the fruit of its karmas and which is the place where it realizes Brahman,—is a “small”, i.e. a tiny ‘lotus , viz. the heart, well-known from Scripture; that very thing is a chamber as it were....
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Chandogya Upanishad (Madhva commentary) [by Srisa Chandra Vasu]
(The teacher says) “Now in this city of Brahman, there is this palace, the small lotus (of the heart). Within this, there is the small Ether. That which is within this, He is to be sought for, He is to be understood.”—522. Mantra 8.1.2. 2....
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Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya) [by George Thibaut]
The small (ether) (is Brahman) on account of the subsequent (arguments). We read (Ch. Up. VIII, 1, 1),' There is this city of Brahman, and in it the palace, the small lotus, and in it that small ether. Now what exists within that small ether that is to be sought for, that is to be understood,' &c.--Here the doubt arises whether the small ether within the small lotus of the heart of which Scripture speaks, is the elemental ether, or the individual soul (vijnanatman), or the highest Self....
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