Brahma Sūtra 3.2.22

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

प्रकृतैतावत्त्वं हि प्रतिषेधति ततो ब्रवीति च भूयः

prakṛtaitāvattvaṃ hi pratiṣedhati tato bravīti ca bhūyaḥ

Sūtra translation

For (the clause ‘Not so, not so’) denies (of Brahman) the suchness which forms the topic of discussion ; and (the text) enounces something more than that.

We read, Bri. Up. II, 3, ‘Two forms of Brahman there are indeed, the material and the immaterial, the mortal and the immortal, the

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.2.21 in this text

Sūtra

प्रकृतैतावत्त्वं हि प्रतिषेधति ततो ब्रवीति च भूयः

prakṛtaitāvattvaṃ hi pratiṣedhati tato bravīti ca bhūyaḥ

Sūtra translation

For the text denies the previously declared so-muchness; and declares more than that.

It is impossible to understand the text 'not so, not so' as negativing those distinctions of Brahman which had been stated previously. If the

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

प्रकृतैतावत्वं हि प्रतिषेधति ततो ब्रवीति च भूयः

prakṛtaitāvatvaṃ hi pratiṣedhati tato bravīti ca bhūyaḥ

Sūtra translation

Also because the same test denies of Brahman the limitation of power to the extent spoken of at first and declares of Him something more than that.

The Sruti having prohibited the idea that the Lord’s power is limited to what is said iu the earlier part of the text itself,

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