Brahma Sūtra 3.3.38

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

सैव हि सत्यादयः

saiva hi satyādayaḥ

Sūtra translation

For the True and so on are one and the same (vidya).

The text of the Va^asaneyaka, after having enjoined the knowledge of the True, together with a meditation on the syllables of its name (‘

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.37 in this text

Sūtra

सैव हि सत्यादयः

saiva hi satyādayaḥ

Sūtra translation

For one and the same (highest divinity), called the 'truly being,' and so on (is the subject of that meditation).

For the highest divinity, called there that which is—which was introduced in the clause 'that divinity thought,' &c.—is intimated by all the following sections

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.39 in this text

Sūtra

सैवहि सत्यादयः

saivahi satyādayaḥ

Sūtra translation

Because the same deity (spoken of as the Akshara) is (described by the terms) Satya, etc.

Satya and other words denote the qualities which only form the essence of the same Supreme Deity. This is said in the Brahma Tarka

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