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An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra -1.4 Swami Krishnananda

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=============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 14, 2020. Chapter 1: The Forest of the Brahma Sutra -4. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Brahma Sutra makes a statement 'Brahman is to be known'. ##Commentators write pages after pages in explaining the meaning of one Sutra only, athato brahma jijnasa. Volumes have been written, commentaries have been written, and commentaries on commentaries, and a third commentary on the second and the first! ###Sankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Vallabhacharya, Nimbarkacharya, all wrote great commentaries on the Brahma Sutras. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. #Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's commentary was commented on by Vachaspati Mishra in his exposition called bhamati. One of the disciples o