Sūtra 1.2.3Rāmānuja · 1.2.3

Rāmānujaon Brahma Sūtra 1.2.3

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अनुपपत्तेस्तु न शारीरः

anupapattestu na śārīraḥ

Sūtra translation

But, on account of impossibility, not the embodied soul.

Those who fully consider this infinite multitude of exalted qualities will recognise that not even a shadow of them can belong to the individual soul—whether in the state of bondage or that of release—which is a thing as insignificant as a glow-worm and, through its connexion with a body, liable to the attacks of endless suffering. It is not possible therefore to hold that the section under discussion should refer to the individual soul.