Brahma Sūtra 3.4.16

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

उपमर्दं च

upamardaṃ ca

Sūtra translation

And (scripture teaches) the destruction (of the qualification for works, by knowledge).

Moreover scripture teaches that this whole apparent world—which springs from Nescience, is characterised by actions, agents and results of actions and is the cause

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

उपमर्दं च

upamardaṃ ca

Sūtra translation

And destruction.

There is moreover a Vedânta-text which declares the knowledge of Brahman to destroy work-good and evil—which is the root of all the afflictions of

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

उपमर्दं च

upamardaṃ ca

Sūtra translation

And (some Sakhins) read also of the reduction (of the consequences of Prarabdhakarma by knowledge).

(This is said) in the Tura Sruti: “Having pro- nounced the sacred syllable, having distinctly seen this (omnipresent) Lord within (their heart, etc.), having

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