An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra: 12-3. Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================================================== Friday 19, December 2025, 05:30. An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra: Chapter 12: Brahman and Its Realisation Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================ The difficulty is in the definition of Brahman. Brahma Sutra could have said 'God is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Satchitananda'. What is the harm in giving that definition? 'Pure Being, Pure Consciousness, Pure Freedom' – instead of that why did the Brahma Sutra say God is He who creates, preserves, destroys? According to this view, by liberation, we have to mean going to Brahma-Loka, having Cosmic Consciousness but not becoming Brahma Himself. There is a specific Sutra, jagat vyaparavarjyam' – the liberated soul in Brahma-Loka will have all the freedom except the power of creating the world; It is like someone living in the White House – with all ...