Brahma Sutras
Badarayana's aphorisms systematizing the Upanishads; one of the three foundations of Vedanta, with Shankara's commentary.
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- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The tradition built its highest theology on three foundational texts: the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
The famous example, and the move behind it When Shankara opens his great commentary on the Brahma Sutras , he does not begin with God or the cosmos.
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
For roughly three thousand years, the most important texts in India were never written down. They were heard, memorized syllable by syllable, and carried across a…
- Beginningless but endable Treatise
In the second chapter of the Brahma Sutras , at 2.1.34 and 2.1.35, the question is put directly: does the inequality of the world, the fact that beings are born to such different fortunes, not make the Lord who…
- Who runs the ledger, and why the innocent suffer Treatise
And the Brahma Sutras , at the passage the tradition reads as establishing God the giver of fruit, hold that the Lord dispenses the results of action, because it is fitting that a conscious agent, and not an in…
- What remains Treatise
Even for the liberated, the *prarabdha* karma that shaped the present body is not burned; it must be lived out until the body falls, as a potter's wheel keeps…