Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 1.1.11

“ He is the one supreme and illustrious Lord, who is imperceptibly present in every being, who is all pervading, who actuates all beings from within, who is the master of all action, in whom all beings dwell, who is the witness of all, who is essentially intelligence and who is unmix- ed with matter, and unqualified (Sv. VI- 11). For what cannot be conveyed by words cannot be declared by the Sruti; and it is not fit to assume what is not established by authority; for it is not possible for words to indicate things which caunot be named (directly) by any word. In the whole (of the remaining part) of this chapter beginning with the aphorism, “ The blissful (is Brah- man only) from the repetition,” Sutrakara mainly expounds the same law (by which Brahman is perceived to be the subject of the whole scripture) ; and in this (first Pada) it is mainly shown how the names which by usage are known to denote other things, are the names of Brahman (predicating of Him the attributes connoted by them). The subject matter of this Pada is not of any other description, as this could not be found (to be). It has been said that Brahman ought to be enquired into. The same Brahman appears in the Taittireya Sruti (II. 52), ‘ Brahman is its tail, its support,’ to be a limb of Anandamaya (the blissful) ; but the knowledge of the part is not to be sought instead of the knowledge of the whole* To remove this objection (and to establish the a necessity for the proposed enquiry into Brahman), the Sutrakara advances this aphorism.