Brahma Sūtra 3.3.48

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

दर्शनाच्च

darśanācca

Sūtra translation

And because (indicatory marks of that) are seen (in the text).

And that there are to be observed indicatory marks leading to the same conclusion, has already been declared in Siitra 44.— But, under Sutra

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.46 in this text

Rāmānuja’s text carries this sūtra and Sūtra 3.3.47 as one sūtra.

Sūtra

विद्यैव तु निर्धारणाद्दर्शनाच्च

vidyaiva tu nirdhāraṇāddarśanācca

Sūtra translation

But it is a meditation only, on account of assertion and what is seen.

The altars built of mind, and so on, are not of the nature of action, but of meditation only, i.e. they belong to a

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.49 in this text

Sūtra

दर्शनाच्च

darśanācca

Sūtra translation

And from the (actual) seeing (of the Lord), at scrip- ture says.

Not only by mere knowledge derived by study, etc., but by direct perception, i.e., sight of the Lord (resulting from such knowledge), release is

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