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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]
According to the Brahma Sutras, individual souls are responsible for their own fate; God is merely the dispenser and witness with reference to the merit and demerit of souls. In his commentary on Chapter 2 of the Brahma Sutras, Sivananda further notes that the position of God with respect to karma can be explained through the analogy of rain.
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 ...
Shankara's masterpiece of commentary is the Brahmasutrabhasya (literally, commentary on Brahma Sutras). The Brahma Sutras are a fundamental text of the Vedanta school of Hinduism. [19] Shankara refers to or cites some passages from works attributed to Gaudapada (the teacher of Shankara's teacher) in his commentaries, revealing a line of ...
This book is a commentary on Bhāmatī of Vācaspati Miśra which text in its own turn is a commentary on Sankara's commentary on the Brahma Sutras of Badarayana. His other works are – Śastra-darpana which is explanations of the Brahma Sutras, and Pancapādikā-darpana which is a commentary on Padmapādācārya 's Pancapādika .
The Brahma Sutras of Bādarāyana, also called the Vedānta Sutra, [17] were compiled in its present form around 400–450 AD, [18] but "the great part of the Sutra must have been in existence much earlier than that". [18] Estimates of the date of Bādarāyana's lifetime differ between 200 BC and 200 AD. [19]
Advaita Vedanta. Prasthanatrayi (Principal Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, Bhagavad Gita)Advaita Bodha Deepika; Dŗg-Dŗśya-Viveka; Vedantasara of Sadananda; Panchadasi; Ashtavakra Gita
It is a metacommentary on the author's own commentary on the Brahma Sutras. The other three works on Sutras are Brahma Sutra Bhashya , Anu Bhashya, and Nyayavivarana . [ 1 ] The Anuvyakyana is a work elucidating this commentary with scholarly and philosophical dissertations and criticisms of other schools especially the Advaita of Adi Shankara ...