Sūtra 3.3.54Madhva · 3.3.56

Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 3.3.54

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.56 in this text

Sūtra

व्यतिरेकस्तद्भावभावित्वान्नतूपलब्धिवत्

vyatirekastadbhāvabhāvitvānnatūpalabdhivat

Sūtra translation

It cannot be said that the part and the whole are sepa- rate, even as the mental acts are separate ; far the part is, how. ever, participating in the chief experiences resulting from the meditation, etc., of the whole.

Though there may be difference in respect of their- (the part and the whole) perception, etc., (in minor items), there is no separateness at all between the part and the whole; for the part participates in the good resulting from the meditation, etc., of that (the whole). This is also said in the Parama Samhitâ: “ The parts go out of the whole only under the force of Karma wrought by the whole itself, and they again become one and this cannot be questioned/’