Brahma-sūtra 1.1 Adhikaraṇa 4 Part 1—Upaniṣads Reveal Brahman
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2024-04-01

Namaste 🙏  So here beginneth the fourth Adhikaraṇa of the first Pāda of the first Adhyāya, the first chapter of Brahma-sūtra, Samanādhyāya, which means the chapter on Reconciliation. And the reconciliation that he's describing is that between the source of knowledge in the Vedas and other sources of knowledge, which may be based on various logical reasoning and inference, hammered out with logic.

So here Śaṅkarācārya shifts gears, and first he presents a very sophisticated, highly technical argument by the opponent, who is clearly a different type of person than the previous opponents, who were more or less ignorant, and more or less just, you know, going on their own intuition. This is a very sophisticated logical argument derived from the teachings of the Vṛttikāras. The Vṛttikāras are a group of commentators on the śāstras out of Kāśī, which is now known as Varaṇāsī, India, and they were mainly logicians.

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