Sūtra 4.4.20Śaṅkara · 4.4.20

Śaṅkaraon Brahma Sūtra 4.4.20

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

दर्शयतश्चैवं प्रत्यक्षानुमाने

darśayataścaivaṃ pratyakṣānumāne

Sūtra translation

And thus perception and inference show.

Scripture and both declare that the highest light does not abide within effected things, ‘ The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less this fire* ( II, 2, 10). ‘The sun does not illume it, nor the moon, nor fire* (Bha. Gita XV, 6). —The Sutra is meant to show that the non-abiding of the highest light within effected things is a well-known circumstance.