Brahma Sūtra 2.4.16

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

तस्य च नित्यत्वात्

tasya ca nityatvāt

Sūtra translation

And on account of the permanence of this (viz. the embodied soul).

This embodied soul abides permanently in this body as the enjoyer, since it can be affected by good and evil and can experience pleasure

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.4.14 in this text

Sūtra

तस्य च नित्यत्वात्

tasya ca nityatvāt

Sūtra translation

And on account of the eternity of this.

As the quality, inhering in all things, of being ruled by the highest Self, is eternal and definitely fixed by being connected with his

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.4.17 in this text

Sūtra

तस्य च नित्यत्वात्

tasya ca nityatvāt

Sūtra translation

And because the relation between him (the soul) and the organs has existed from eternity.

The connection between the soul and the organs has been eternal without a beginning; so the Sruti rightly speaks of the organs as the

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