BRAHMA SUTRAS : CHAPTER ONE: SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA : Section 1: Janmadyadhikaranam: Topic 2 (Sutra 2) - 1. SWAMI SIVANANDA.
01/08/2019. CHAPTER ONE: SAMANVAYA ADHYAYA Contents Contents of Samanvaya Adhyaya Section 1 (Sutras 1-31) Janmadyadhikaranam: Topic 2 (Sutra 2)-1. --------------------------------------------------- The definition of Brahman. -------------------------------------- Janmadyasya yatah I.1.2 (2) (Brahman is that) from which the origin etc., (i.e. the origin, sustenance and dissolution) of this (world proceed). Janmadi: origin etc.; Asya: of this (world); Yatah: from which. Answer to the enquiry of Brahman is briefly given in this Sutra. It is stated that Brahman who is eternally pure, wise and free (Nitya, Buddha, Mukta Svabhava) is the only cause, stay and final resort of this world. Brahman who is the originator, preserver and absorber of this vast world must have unlimited powers and characteristics. Hence He is Omnipotent and Omniscient. Who but the Omnipotent and Omniscient Brahman could create, rule and destroy it? Certainly mere atoms or chance cannot do this w