{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe34/sbe34072.htm","path":"hin/sbe34/sbe34072.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe34/sbe34072.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras, commentary by Sankaracharya (SBE34), tr. by George Thibaut [1890]\n3. Not (i.e. the abode of heaven, earth, &c. cannot be) that which is inferred, (i.e. the pradh\u00e2na), on account of the terms not denoting it.\nWhile there has been shown a special reason in favour of Brahman (being the abode), there is no such special reason in favour of anything else. Hence he (the s\u00fbtrak\u00e2ra) says that that which is inferred, i.e. the pradh\u00e2na assumed by the S\u00e2nkhya-smriti, is not to be accepted as the abode of heaven, earth, &c.--Why?--On account of the terms not denoting it. For the sacred text does not contain any term intimating the non-intelligent pradh\u00e2na, on the ground of which we might understand the latter to be the general cause or abode; while such terms as 'he who perceives all and knows all' (Mu. Up. I, 1, 9) intimate an intelligent being opposed to the pradh\u00e2na in nature.--For the same reason the air also cannot be accepted as the abode of heaven, earth, and so on.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras, Sankaracharya, comm.: First Adhy\u00e2ya, Third P\u00e2da: I, 3, 3","type":"page"}