Brahma Sūtra 4.2.18

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

रश्म्यनुसारी

raśmyanusārī

Sūtra translation

(The soul after having passed forth from the body) follows the rays.

There is the vidy^ of him within the heart, which begins, ‘ There is this city of Brahman and in it the palace, the

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 4.2.17 in this text

Sūtra

रश्म्यनुसारी

raśmyanusārī

Sūtra translation

Following the rays.

Scripture teaches that the soul of him who knows, after having passed forth from the heart by way of the hundred and first artery,

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

रश्म्यनुसारी

raśmyanusārī

Sūtra translation

Following the rayt (of the sun within the vein).

He departs. For the Pautrayana Sruti says: “A thousand are the rays of the Sun, which are spread through these veins; one of them

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