Brahma Sūtra 1.3.22

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अनुकृतेस्तस्य च

anukṛtestasya ca

Sūtra translation

On account of the acting after (i.e. the shining after), (that after which sun, moon, &c. are said to shine is the highest Self), and (because by the light) of him (all this is said to be lighted).

We read (Mu. Up. II, 2, 10, and Ka. Up. V, 15), 'The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars,

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 1.3.21 in this text

Sūtra

अनुकृतेस्तस्य च

anukṛtestasya ca

Sūtra translation

And on account of the imitation of that.

The individual soul, free from bondage, and thus possessing the qualities of freedom from sin, &c., cannot be the small ether, i.e. the highest

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अनुकृतेस्तस्य च

anukṛtestasya ca

Sūtra translation

(That which is sought as the helper is Brahman only), since the sun, etc., act after Him (i.e., shine imbued with His lustre, when He shines, as seen from Sruti, 1 By His light, ’ etc.).

‘ After Him, when He shines, everything shinesthis shows that the act of shining in the wise, (the sun, etc.), is a copy of

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