Brahma Sutra

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The Brahma Sutra (also known as the Vedanta Sutra,  Shariraka Sutra, and Bhikshu-sutra) are a Sanskrit text which criticizes the metaphysical dualism of the influential Samkhya philosophy, and instead synthesizes and harmonizes divergent Upanishadic ideas and practices about the essence of existence, postulating God-like Brahman as the only origin and essence of everything. It is attributed to the sages Badarayaṇa, who is also called Vyasa (arranger).

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The Brahma Sutra consists of 555 aphoristic verses (sutra) in four chapters, dealing with attaining knowledge of Brahman. Rejecting the smriti as a base of knowledge, it declares that the Vedic Upanishad are the only acceptable source of truth, unfallible revelations describing the same metaphysical Reality, Brahman, which cannot be different for different people. The text attempts to synthesize and harmonize diverse and sometimes apparently conflicting vidyas ("knowledges") of, and upasanas (meditation, worship) of the essence of existence, stating they are actualy synonyms for Brahman. It does so from a bhedabheda-perspective, that Brahman and Atman are, in some respects, different, but, at the deepest level, non-different (advaita), being identical.

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