Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 3.2.27
Dvaita Vedānta
Numbered 3.2.28 in this text
Sūtra
उभयव्यपदेशात्त्वहिकुण्डलवत्
ubhayavyapadeśāttvahikuṇḍalavat
Sūtra translation
But Brahman is both bliss and the blissful, on ac- count of 8or,ipture declaring Him as both, even as the serpent’s coils.
In such Srutis as the following, “ He who knows the bliss of Brahman” (Tait. II. 4); “Now he is the perfect bliss” (Bri. VI. 3.33), the Lord being spoken of both as the blissful and bliss, both conceptions are ad- missible just as it is in the case of the coils of the ser- pent, i.e., just as the serpent is one having coils, and is also coils. By the term, ‘ But/ the Sutrakara points out (that Brahman and His attributes) being known only through scripture, (no contradiction or inconsistency should be supposed to arise from reasoning).