Brahma Sūtra 3.2.40

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

धर्मं जैमिनिरत एव

dharmaṃ jaiminirata eva

Sūtra translation

(Paimini (thinks) for the same reasons that religious merit (is what brings about the fruits of actions).

Gaimini bases a contrary opinion on the reasons specified in the last two Sutras. Scripture, he argues, proclaims injunctions such as the following one,

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.2.39 in this text

Sūtra

धर्मं जैमिनिरत एव

dharmaṃ jaiminirata eva

Sūtra translation

For the same reasons Jaimini (thinks it to be) religious action.

For the same reasons, viz. possibility and scriptural declaration, the teacher Jaimini thinks that religious works, viz. sacrifices, gifts, offerings, and meditation, of themselves

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.2.41 in this text

Sūtra

धर्मं जैमिनिरत एव

dharmaṃ jaiminirata eva

Sūtra translation

The Dharma it] the rewarder• and it epringt from Him only ; Gaimini holdt this view from tuch (Sruti).

Only that Karma springs from the Lord which is the cause of fruit. Thus Gaimini thinks, from the scriptural statement, “ Indeed He only

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