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The Brahma Sutras, attributed to Badarayana, condense the teaching of the Upanishads into roughly 550 aphorisms in four chapters, so terse that they can hardly be read without a commentary. Shankara’s is the oldest commentary on them that survives in full. Its introduction explains ignorance as “superimposition” (adhyasa): the self and what is not the self are confused, as when a rope is taken for a snake. The second chapter refutes rival schools, among them Samkhya, the atomism of Vaisheshika, the Buddhist schools and the Jains. Sub-commentaries such as Vachaspati Mishra’s “Bhamati” built on it, and it became the reference text of Advaita Vedanta.

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• Bryhadaranjakopaniszadok. 700 p.n.e. · Yajnavalkya

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