Brahma Sūtra 3.3.54

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

व्यतिरेकस्तद्भावाभावित्वान्न तूपलब्धिवत्

vyatirekastadbhāvābhāvitvānna tūpalabdhivat

Sūtra translation

There is separation (of the Self from the body) because its existence does not depend on the existence of that (viz. the body), but there is not (non-separation); as in the case of perceptive con- sciousness.

The assertion that the Self is not separate from the body cannot be maintained. The Self rather must be something separate from the body,

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.52 in this text

Sūtra

व्यतिरेकस्तद्भावभावित्वान्न तूपलब्धिवत्

vyatirekastadbhāvabhāvitvānna tūpalabdhivat

Sūtra translation

But this is not so, (but rather) difference; since it is of the being of that; as in the case of intuition.

It is not true that the meditating subject must be conceived as having the ordinary characteristics of knowing, acting, &c.; it rather possesses those

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.56 in this text

Sūtra

व्यतिरेकस्तद्भावभावित्वान्नतूपलब्धिवत्

vyatirekastadbhāvabhāvitvānnatūpalabdhivat

Sūtra translation

It cannot be said that the part and the whole are sepa- rate, even as the mental acts are separate ; far the part is, how. ever, participating in the chief experiences resulting from the meditation, etc., of the whole.

Though there may be difference in respect of their- (the part and the whole) perception, etc., (in minor items), there is no separateness at

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