Brahma Sūtra 2.1.28

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

आत्मनि चैवं विचित्राश्च हि

ātmani caivaṃ vicitrāśca hi

Sūtra translation

For thus it is in the (individual) Self also, and various (creations exist in gods, &c.).

Nor is there any reason to find fault with the doctrine that there can be a manifold creation in the one Self, without destroying

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

आत्मनि चैवं विचित्राश्च हि

ātmani caivaṃ vicitrāśca hi

Sūtra translation

And thus in the Self; for (there are) manifold (powers).

If attributes belonging to one thing were on that account to be ascribed to other things also, it would follow that attributes observed in

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.1.29 in this text

Sūtra

आत्मनि चैवं विचित्राश्च हि

ātmani caivaṃ vicitrāśca hi

Sūtra translation

And in the Lord only are such (inconceivably) great and various (pouters).

Only the Supreme Lord, and no other (».«., soul) has such extraordinary and inconceivable powers (which make what is impossible elsewhere possible in Him).

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