Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 4.1.4

From a wrong notion that may be caused by the words of such texts as: “ Meditate on Name as Brahman, &c.,” (Ch. VII. 1.5), the symbol should not be identified with Brahman; but Brahman is to be contem- plated as present in the symbol. And this is said in the Brahma Tarka: “ From Naman to Prana both being spoken of in the nominative case (as identical.) the dull- witted may mistake and identify Naman, etc., with Brahman. [Only the presence oLBrahman in Naman and other symbols is meant to be declared by the passage. Accordingly the words in the nominative case are taken, to be in the locative; for the nominative can stand for all the cases.”