{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe34/sbe34118.htm","path":"hin/sbe34/sbe34118.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe34/sbe34118.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras, commentary by Sankaracharya (SBE34), tr. by George Thibaut [1890]\n7. And (the case of the term avyakta) is like that of the term mahat.\nWhile the S\u00e2nkhyas employ the term 'the Great one,' to denote the first-born entity, which is mere existence 1(? viz. the intellect), the term has a different meaning in Vedic use. This we see from its being connected with the Self, &c. in such passages as the following, 'The great Self is beyond the Intellect' (Ka. Up. I, 3, 10); 'The great omnipresent Self (Ka. Up. I, 2, 23); 'I know that great person' (Sve. Up. III, 8). We thence conclude that the word avyakta also, where it occurs in the Veda, cannot denote the pradh\u00e2na.--The pradh\u00e2na is therefore a mere thing of inference, and not vouched for by Scripture.\n252:1 The commentators give different explanations of the Satt\u00e2m\u00e2tra of the text.--Satt\u00e2m\u00e2tre sattvapradh\u00e2naprakriter \u00e2dyaparin\u00e2me. Go. \u00c2n.--Bhog\u00e2pavargapurush\u00e2rthasya mahakkhabditabuddhik\u00e2ryatv\u00e2t purush\u00e2pekshitaphalak\u00e2ranam sad ukyate tatra bh\u00e2vapratyayo#pi svar\u00fbp\u00e2rtho na s\u00e2m\u00e2nyav\u00e2k\u00ee k\u00e2ry\u00e2numeyam mahan na pratyaksham iti m\u00e2trasabdah. \u00c2nanda Giri.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras, Sankaracharya, comm.: First Adhy\u00e2ya, Fourth P\u00e2da: I, 4, 7","type":"page"}