Brahma Sūtra 3.2.14

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अरूपवदेव हि तत्प्रधानत्वात्

arūpavadeva hi tatpradhānatvāt

Sūtra translation

For (Brahman) is merely devoid of form, on account of this being the main purport of scripture.

Brahman, we must definitively assert, is devoid of all form, colour, and so on, and does not in any way possess form, and so

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अरूपवदेव हि तत्प्रधानत्वात्

arūpavadeva hi tatpradhānatvāt

Sūtra translation

For (Brahman is) without form merely, since it is the principal agent with regard to that.

Brahman, although by entering into bodies, human, divine, and so on, it becomes connected with various forms, yet is in itself altogether devoid of

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अरूपवदेव हि तत्प्रधानत्वात्

arūpavadeva hi tatpradhānatvāt

Sūtra translation

Indeed it is altogether destitute of colour or form j for it is the Supreme thing and ruler (of all that consists of colour and form viz., (Prokrili, fyc.).

The perfect Being is certainly not a thing which has colour or form ; for He is Superior to (Prakriti), the Bigiti; entity of

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