{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38248.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38248.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38248.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n39. Better than this is the other (state of belonging to an \u00e2srama), on account of the indicatory marks.\n'Than this,' i.e. 'than standing between,' a better means of knowledge it is to stand within one of the \u00e2sramas, since this is confirmed by Sruti and Smriti. For scripture supplies an indicatory mark in the passage, 'On that path goes whoever knows Brahman and who has done holy\nworks (as prescribed for the \u00e2sramas) and obtained splendour' (Bri. Up. IV, 4, 9); and Smriti in the passage, 'Let a Br\u00e2hmana stay not one day even outside the \u00e2srama; having stayed outside for a year he goes to utter ruin.'","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fo...","type":"page"}