From Śaṅkara’s commentary
Brahman is known on the ground of its being the Self of every one
Brahman
ŚaṅkaraAdvaita Vedānta
Interpretation
The sole, non-dual ultimate reality, identical with the Self (Atman) of every being, whose essential nature is eternal purity, intelligence, and freedom. Brahman is the omniscient, omnipotent cause of the origin, subsistence, and dissolution of the world, but this causal description is itself only a provisional characterization pointing to a reality whose own nature is prior to and independent of being a cause at all.
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Where Śaṅkara’s commentary grounds this interpretation. Open a sūtra to read the commentary context.
From Śaṅkara’s commentary
That omniscient omnipotent cause from which proceed the origin, subsistence, and dissolution of this world
Rāmānuja
Viśiṣṭādvaita VedāntaRāmānuja’s commentary at these sūtras engages with the Advaita position. Each excerpt’s note says how.
From Rāmānuja’s commentary
From Rāmānuja’s commentary