Sūtra 2.4.2Madhva · 2.4.3

Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.4.2

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.4.3 in this text

Sūtra

प्रतिज्ञानुपरोधाच्च

pratijñānuparodhācca

Sūtra translation

In order that the declaration in the argument may not be contradicted, i.e., it may be consistently maintained :

Viz., the declaration, “ He created all this ” (Tait. II. 6.), (the breaths or orgaus of sense must be held to have originated). Indeed of two classes are the organs of sense; the permanent and the non-permanent. Of them the per- manent is the Mind; for the soul cannot be without the mind; other (organs) are non-permanent. Thus in the Gaupavana Sruti, absence of origin in the case of the mind is stated with a reason. Hence the Sutrakara says: