Brahma Sūtra 2.2.27
Śaṅkara
Advaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.28 in this text
Sūtra
नाभाव उपलब्धेः
nābhāva upalabdheḥ
Sūtra translation
The non-existence (of external things) cannot be maintained, on account of (our) consciousness (of them).
There having been brought forward, in what precedes, the various objections which lie against the doctrine of the reality of the external world (in
Rāmānuja
Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
Sūtra
नाभाव उपलब्धेः
nābhāva upalabdheḥ
Sūtra translation
Not non-existence, on account of consciousness.
Here now come forward the Yogâkâras, who hold that cognitions (ideas) only are real. There is no reasonable ground, they say, for the view
Madhva
Dvaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.28 in this text
Sūtra
नाभाव उपलब्धेः
nābhāva upalabdheḥ
Sūtra translation
The non-existence (of external things, i.e., of the world) cannot he maintained, on account of our being conscious of them.
Further it cannot be said that the world itself is non- entity, or non-entity itself the world, for it is actually perceived (as entity),