Brahma Sūtra 3.3.34

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

इयदामननात्

iyadāmananāt

Sūtra translation

On account of (the same) number being re- corded.

The Atharva;dkas exhibit, with reference to the Self, the following mantra, ‘Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree. One of them eats

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.33 in this text

Sūtra

अक्षरधियां त्ववरोधः सामान्यतद्भावाभ्यामौपसदवत्तदुक्तम्

akṣaradhiyāṃ tvavarodhaḥ sāmānyatadbhāvābhyāmaupasadavattaduktam

Sūtra translation

But the conceptions of the Imperishable are to be comprised (in all meditations). There being equality (of the Brahman to be meditated on) and (those conceptions) existing (in Brahman); as in the case of what belongs to the upasad.

This has been explained. We read in the Brihad-âranyaka (III, 8, 9),'O Gârgî, the Brâhmanas call that the Akshara. It is neither coarse nor

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.35 in this text

How Madhva’s text corresponds here is not yet settled.

Sūtra

इयदामननात्

iyadāmananāt

Sūtra translation

It (the gradation of the leigible) is of this limit (terminus), as (Sruti) declares.

Though superiority of one over the other in the ascending prder beginning with the deities presiding over Nama, etc., and ending with Prana, is

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