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The Brahma Sūtras or Brahmasutra are attributed to Badarayana. [16] In some texts, Badarayana is also called Vyasa, which literally means "one who arranges". [16]Badarayana was the Guru (teacher) of Jaimini, the latter credited with authoring Mimamsa Sutras of the Mimamsa school of Hindu philosophy. [16]
They worshipped and revered the Brahma because, "He was here even before I existed! Surely he is the Lord and Creator of All." In the Brahma realm, the first being had longer and more powerful features than the latter coming beings. So, a probability existed that the latter being died in the Brahma realm, and then was reborn as a human.
Brahma Sutras (or Vedanta Sutra) – a Sanskrit text, composed by Badarayana, likely sometime between 200 BCE to 200 CE. [34] The text contains 555 sutras in four chapters that summarize the philosophical and spiritual ideas in the Upanishads. [35] It is one of the foundational texts of the Vedānta school of Hindu philosophy. [35]
The name of the sutra derives from the vast net that the god Brahma hangs in his palace and how each jewel in the net reflects the light of every other jewel: At that time, he [Shakyamuni Buddha] contemplated the wonderful Jewel Net hung in Lord Brahma's palace and preached the Brahmajala Sutta for the Great Assembly.
The education of a student started from Upanayana ritual. It was performed between four and nine years of age. After it, the student was sent to Gurukula for the study. In the upanayana an Acharya was assigned to the student. The Acharya took care of his students like father and impart proper education, training and guidance to them.
His work Brahma Sutras is variously dated from 500 BCE to 450 CE. [5] The Brahma Sutras of Bādarāyana, also called the Vedanta Sutra, [6] was compiled in its present form around 400–450 CE, [7] but "the great part of the Sutra must have been in existence much earlier than that". [7] Bādarāyana is regarded as having written the basic text ...
The Brahma Sutras, known as Sūtra Prasthāna (formulative texts) or Nyāya Prasthāna or Yukti Prasthāna (logical text or axiom of logic) The Upanishads consist of ten, twelve or thirteen major texts, with a total of 108 texts [ 2 ] (some scholars list ten as principal – the Mukhya Upanishads , while most consider twelve or thirteen as ...
“The World Sanskrit Conference is proud to honor this new and truly historic achievement in the world of Sanskrit philosophical culture. It is the first Sanskrit commentary on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita in nearly 200 years and the first commentary on the complete set by a single acharya in over 1200 years.