Brahma Sūtra 2.2.28

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.2.29 in this text

Sūtra

वैधर्म्याच्च न स्वप्नादिवत्

vaidharmyācca na svapnādivat

Sūtra translation

And on account of their difference of nature (the ideas of the waking state) are not like those of a dream.

We now apply ourselves to the refutation of the averment made by the Bauddha, that the ideas of posts, and so on, of which

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

वैधर्म्याच्च न स्वप्नादिवत्

vaidharmyācca na svapnādivat

Sūtra translation

And on account of difference of nature (they are) not like dreams.

Owing to the different nature of dream-cognitions, it cannot be said that, like them, the cognitions of the waking state also have no things

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.2.29 in this text

Sūtra

वैधर्म्याच्च न स्वप्नादिवत्

vaidharmyācca na svapnādivat

Sūtra translation

And on account of the difference of characteristics (the world is not non-existent), as those of dream, etc, are.

And it cannot be said that as the creatures of a dream, etc., (are), the world too, though an object of perception, is non-entity

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