[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c95.69 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.69 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.69 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c95.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.69) ²⁴⁵⁶ किं पुन परं ब्रह्म किमपरमिति। उच्यते। यत्राविद्याकृतनामरूपादिविशेषप्रतिषेधादस्थूलादिशब्दैर्ब्रह्मोपदिश्यते तत्परम्। तदेव यत्र नामरूपादिविशेषेण केनचिद्विशिष्टमुपासनायोपदिश्यते 'मनोमय प्राणशरीरो भारूपः' (छा III 14. 2) इत्यादिशब्दैस्तदपरम्। भाष्य on वे. सू IV. 3. 14, एवमेकमपि ब्रह्मापेक्षितोपाधिसम्बन्धं निरस्तोपाधिसम्बन्धं चोपास्यत्वेन ज्ञेयत्वेन च वेदान्तेषूपदिश्यत इति। शङ्कराचार्य on वे सू I. 1. 12. It should be noted that the words 'neti neti' occur four times in the great exposition of Yājñavalkya on \*brahman\* in Br Up. IV. 2. 4, IV 4. 22, IV. 5. 15, III. 9 26 The highest \*brahman\* is conceived as beyond space, time and independent of the law of causality. We may compare the conceptions of \*para-brahma\* and \*apara-brahma\* with what Plato postulates (in Timaeus, Introduction p. 6 to Bury's translation) as the distinction between Being and Becoming viz Being is changeless, eternal, self-existent and apprehensible by thought only. Becoming is the opposite, ever changing, never truly existent and the object of sensations, and the perceptible universe belongs to the latter - [Previous: v7.c95.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.68) - [Next: v7.c95.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.70) - [Up: v7.c95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95) ## Cites (3) - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.3.14.2) — Sanskrit - [Brahmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vedanta.brahmasutra-works.brahmasutra.4.3.14) — Bādarāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.4.2.4) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.69) · Pramāṇa