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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Systems of Rāmānuja... ...
had previously interpreted, in his own new way, He is equally logical and consistent in his treatment. After Rāmānuja lived the other Achāryas, i.e., Nimbārka, Madhva, and Vallabha who also were equally powerful and independent thinkers. They too were profound scholars and were pioneers of great religious movements in the south and in the north. They too wrote their own commentaries on the Brahma-Sūtras quite independently, and stuck to their own views. All these Āchāryas, nevertheless, have not neglected the S'ști. They have interpreted the Sști in their own favour. As the same Brahma-Sūtras have been differently interpreted by these Āchāryas, it is natural to entertain a doubt about the real meaning of the Sūtras. They have been presented and twisted in different ways. Similarly, the Upanisads also contain a large number of statements which are mutually incompatible and even contradictory. Ghate, after care'fully examining the original Brahma-Sūtras and their different interpretations, passes the following significant remarks about them --"All these instances of the employment by the Sūtrakāra of vague and general words, not capable of being explicity defined, leave us to believe that the Sūtras, though they were in the first instance intended to formulate a system from the Upanişads, reconcile the contradictions which meet us at every step, represent a stage of transition from the freedom and absolute want of system of the Upanişads to the cut and dry Ā 33
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |