Brahma Sūtra 2.1.26

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

कृत्स्नप्रसक्तिर्निरवयवत्वशब्दकोपो वा

kṛtsnaprasaktirniravayavatvaśabdakopo vā

Sūtra translation

Either the consequence of the entire (Brahman undergoing change) has to be accepted, or else a violation of the texts declaring Brahman to be without parts.

Hitherto we have established so much that Brahman, intelligent, one, without a second, modifying itself without the employment of any extraneous means, is the

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

कृत्स्नप्रसक्तिर्निरवयवत्वशब्दकोपो वा

kṛtsnaprasaktirniravayavatvaśabdakopo vā

Sūtra translation

Or the consequence of the entire (Brahman entering into the effect), and stultification of (Brahman's) being devoid of parts.

'Being only was this in the beginning'; 'This indeed was in the beginning not anything'; 'The Self alone indeed was this in the beginning'—these

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.1.27 in this text

Sūtra

कृत्स्नप्रसक्तिर्निरवयवत्वशब्दकोपोवा

kṛtsnaprasaktirniravayavatvaśabdakopovā

Sūtra translation

Further (objections to the theory that the soul is the creator) are either that he thould act at a whole or that the theory should offend the Word (or 8ruti) which denies parts to the soul.

This is also an objection to the theory of holding the individual soul to be the absolute agent. For'then if he should proceed to

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