Brahma Sūtra 3.3.14

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

आध्यानाय प्रयोजनाभावात्

ādhyānāya prayojanābhāvāt

Sūtra translation

(The passage, Ka/>iaka I, 3, 10, gives informa- tion about the person) for the purpose of pious meditation, as there is no use (of the knowledge of the objects being higher than the senses and so on).

We read in the Ka///aka ( 1 , 3, 10), ‘ Higher than the senses are the objects, higher than the objects there is

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

आध्यानाय प्रयोजनाभावात्

ādhyānāya prayojanābhāvāt

Sūtra translation

For meditation, owing to the absence of purpose.

As no other purpose can be assigned, the text must be supposed to represent Brahman as having joy for its head, and so on,

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.15 in this text

Sūtra

आध्यानाय प्रयोजनाभावात्

ādhyānāya prayojanābhāvāt

Sūtra translation

For the purpose of meditation (all the attributes axe declared by Scripture), on account of the absence of any (other) purpose.

Indeed only for the sake of inducing proper (perfect) meditation all the qualities of the Lord are declared by scripture, and there exists no

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