Brahma Sūtra 1.2.5

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

शब्दविशेषात्

śabdaviśeṣāt

Sūtra translation

On account of the difference of words.

That which possesses the attributes of consisting of mind, and so on, cannot be the individual soul, for that reason also that there is

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

शब्दविशेषात्

śabdaviśeṣāt

Sūtra translation

On account of the difference of words.

The clause 'That is the Self of me, within the heart' designates the embodied soul by means of a genitive form, while the object

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

शब्दविशेषात्

śabdaviśeṣāt

Sūtra translation

On account of the emphatic .use of the word (Brah- man) and oj the particle of emphasis being used to restrict the word (Brahman).

As in “ Him alone they call (A. A. iii. 2. 3.) Brahman ” For the individual soul is not spoken of as Brahnian

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