Brahma Sūtra 4.2.17

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

तदोकोग्रज्वलनं तत्प्रकाशितद्वारो विद्यासामर्थ्यात्तच्छेषगत्यनुस्मृतियोगाच्च हार्दानुगृहीतः शताधिकया

tadokograjvalanaṃ tatprakāśitadvāro vidyāsāmarthyāttaccheṣagatyanusmṛtiyogācca hārdānugṛhītaḥ śatādhikayā

Sūtra translation

(There takes place) a lighting up of the point of its (the souFs) abode (viz. the heart) ; the door (of its egress) being illuminated thereby ; owing to the power of knowledge and the application of meditation to the way which is part of that (know- ledge) ; (the soul) favoured by him in the heart (viz. Brahman) (passes upwards) by the one that exceeds a hundred (i. e, by the hundred and first vein).

Having absolved the inquiry into a point of the higher knowledge into which we were led by a special occasion, we now continue the

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 4.2.16 in this text

Sūtra

तदोकोऽग्रज्वलनं तत्प्रकाशितद्वारो विद्यासामर्थ्यात्तच्छेषगत्यनुस्मृतियोगाच्च हार्दानुगृहीतः शताधिकया

tadoko'grajvalanaṃ tatprakāśitadvāro vidyāsāmarthyāttaccheṣagatyanusmṛtiyogācca hārdānugṛhītaḥ śatādhikayā

Sūtra translation

A lighting up of the point of the abode of that; having the door illuminated by that (the soul), owing to the power of its knowledge and the application of remembrance of the way which is an element of that (viz. of knowledge), being assisted by him who abides within the heart, (passes out) by way of the hundred and first artery.

So far it has been shown that, up to the beginning of the journey, the souls of them as well who possess true knowledge

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

तदोकोऽग्रज्वलनं तत्प्रकाशितद्वारो विद्यासामर्थ्यात्तच्छेषगत्यनुस्मृतियोगाच्च हार्दानुगृहीतः शताधिकया

tadoko'grajvalanaṃ tatprakāśitadvāro vidyāsāmarthyāttaccheṣagatyanusmṛtiyogācca hārdānugṛhītaḥ śatādhikayā

Sūtra translation

Then the lighting up of the top of His abode takes place; and by the path so lighted up the Giva departs by virtue of his knowledge (wisdom) as well as with the help of the memory of the path resulting from (forming part of) th/d (knowledge), and by the grace of Him that dicells in the heart, issues out by the Uadi which is in eecess of the hun/lred.

At the time of departing, the top of the heart (of the wise) becomes lighted up; for the Sruti says: “ Indeed of him

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