Brahma Sūtra 1.2.4

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

कर्मकर्तृव्यपदेशाच्च

karmakartṛvyapadeśācca

Sūtra translation

And because there is a (separate) denotation of the object of activity and of the agent.

The attributes of consisting of mind, and so on, cannot belong to the embodied Self for that reason also, that there is a (separate)

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

कर्मकर्तृव्यपदेशाच्च

karmakartṛvyapadeśācca

Sūtra translation

And because there is (separate) denotation of the object and the agent.

The clause 'When I shall have departed from hence I shall obtain him' denotes the highest Brahman as the object to be obtained, and

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

कर्मकर्तृव्यपदेशाच्च

karmakartṛvyapadeśācca

Sūtra translation

And because there is the denotation of the one (Brahman) as the object, and (of the soul) as the agent.

In such passages, as, “ To him who expounds (the nature of) Atman to another that is ineligible, (the Vedas cease to give milk

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