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The opening sutras of chapter 4 continue the discussion of meditation as means to knowledge, with sutra 4.1.3 summarizing it to be the state where the person accepts, "I am Brahman, not another being" (Adi Shankara), as "Thou indeed I am, O holy divinity, and I indeed thou art, O holy divinity" (Jabalas), and "God is to be contemplated as the ...
He translated Adi Shankaracharya's major commentaries into English, namely the Brahma Sutra, [3] ten Major Upanishads, [4] and the Bhagavad Gita, [5] [6] and numerous other works related to Vedanta and Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature. Brahma Sutra Bhashya With the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya. Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama. 1965. p. 944.
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 ...
Adi Shankara, a Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta school, composed a number of commentarial works. Due to his later influence, a large body of works that is central to the Advaita Vedanta interpretation of the Prasthanatrayi, the canonical texts consisting of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras, is also attributed to him.
The first mention of Adhyasa is found within the Brahma Sutra Bhasya of Adi Shankara. Adi Shankara begins his commentary of the Brahma Sutras by explaining what Adhyasa is and its nature. Shankara lists different views about Adhyasa from different philosophical schools, which suggests that the concept of Adhyasa certainly existed before Shankara.
The Brahma Sutras, the ancient Vedantins, most sub-schools of Vedānta, [3] [web 2] as well as Samkhya argue for parinamavada. [web 2] The "most visible advocates of Vivartavada," states Nicholson, are the Advaitins, the followers of Shankara. [3] "Although the world can be described as conventionally real," adds Nicholson, "the Advaitins claim ...
Founders of the major schools of Vedanta, Adi Shankara, Madhvācharya wrote bhāṣyas (commentaries) on these texts. Rāmānujāchārya did not write any bhāṣya (commentary) on the Upanishads, but wrote bhāṣyas (commentaries) on Brahma Sutras and Bhagavad Gita. Even though Ramanuja did not write individual commentaries on principal ...
The Advaita Guru-Paramparā ("Lineage of Gurus in Non-dualism") is the traditional lineage of divine, Vedic and historical teachers of Advaita Vedanta.It begins with the Daiva-paramparā, the gods; followed by the Ṛṣi-paramparā, the Vedic seers; and then the Mānava-paramparā, with the historical teachers Gaudapada and Adi Shankara, and four of Shankara's pupils. [1]