Brahma Sūtra 2.2.13
Śaṅkara
Advaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.14 in this text
Sūtra
नित्यमेव च भावात्
nityameva ca bhāvāt
Sūtra translation
And on account of the permanent existence (of activity or non-activity).
Moreover, the atoms would have to be assumed as either essentially active (moving) or essentially non-active, or both or neither; there being no fifth
Rāmānuja
Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
Sūtra
नित्यमेव च भावात्
nityameva ca bhāvāt
Sūtra translation
And because (the world also) would thus be eternal.
The samavâya is a relation, and if that relation is eternal that to which the relation belongs must also be eternal, so that we
Madhva
Dvaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.14 in this text
Sūtra
नित्यमेव च भावात्
nityameva ca bhāvāt
Sūtra translation
Besides, (the cause) being permanently present, (the production of the effect also would have to be admitted) as perpetual.
The material cause, viz., the atoms, as well as Sama- vaya (the relation of inherence) being granted to be eter- nally present and it