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 as the Supreme Unmanifest
This chapter describes Brahman as the Supreme Unmanifest located on page 263 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: anumanikadhikaranam or anumanikadhikarana (anumanika-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]
The Brahman Himself is looked upon as Four fold under the names of Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Sankarshana. They are called Padas or Quarters of the Supreme Brahman. Each of these Padas is again sub-divided into four parts called Kalas or four-sixteenths. These Kalas also bear the same names as Vasudeva, etc. Thus the first Kala of Vasudeva Pada is called Vasudeva, the second Kala of Vasudeva Pada is Sankarshana, and so on.] Mantra 4.5.3. 3....
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
That supreme Brahman which is described in the Vedantic Upanishads—of that the Preceptor is the ‘embodiment’—i.e., he is as it were the very image of Brahman. ‘The father is the embodiment of Prajapati’—i.e., Hiranyagarbha. The mother is the same as this earth,—both being equally capable; of bearing burdens. ‘One’s own’—i.e., uterine—‘brother is the embodiment of the self’—the conscious entity within the body....
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Samkhya thoughts in the Mahabharata [by Shini M.V.]
The great principle of manifestation is Brahman, that the Brahman was invested with concrete individuality and sacrifice was regarded as a cosmological force, the Brahman was assigned with the role of creative agency and there after the ideas culminated in to the role of Prajapati or Svayambhu. This description of Brahman is consistent with the Mahabharata When Vasishtha states that the supreme self, which is unmanifest creates Brahma who is also called Hiranyagarbha....
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