Brahma Sūtra 2.2.2
Śaṅkara
Advaita Vedānta
Sūtra
प्रवृत्तेश्च
pravṛtteśca
Sūtra translation
And on account of (the impossibility of) activity.
Leaving the arrangement of the world, we now pass on to the activity by which it is produced.—The three gunas, passing out of the
Rāmānuja
Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.1 in this text
Rāmānuja’s text carries this sūtra and Sūtra 2.2.1 as one sūtra.
Sūtra
रचनानुपपत्तेश्च नानुमानं प्रवृत्तेश्च
racanānupapatteśca nānumānaṃ pravṛtteśca
Sūtra translation
Not that which is inferred, on account of the impossibility of construction, and on account of activity.
The Sûtras have so far set forth the doctrine that the highest Brahman is the cause of the origination and so on of the
Madhva
Dvaita Vedānta
Sūtra
प्रवृत्तेश्च
pravṛtteśca
Sūtra translation
And on account of activity (being seen only in the intelligent being).
For, on the other hand, it is the intelligent being that is capable of self-directed activity. (As all activity connec- ted with matter is