{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38271.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38271.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38271.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n10. And Smriti-passages say the same.\nAuthoritative authors also teach in their Smritis that a sitting posture subserves the act of meditation: cp. e.g. Bha. G\u00eet\u00e2 VI. 11,--Having made a firm seat for one's self on a pure spot.' For the same reason the Yogas\u00e2stra teaches different sitting posture, viz. the so-called lotus position and so on.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Fourth Adhy\u00e2ya. First P\u00e2da: IV, 1, 10","type":"page"}