The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c6.s3.t5.7

c6.s3.t5.7

As both interpretations agree in recognising Bliss (ânanda) as the being of Brahman, this difference is of no particular consequence for our purpose. But it is interesting for the literary character of our work, as well as for the history of the Vedânta, that here in Çaṅkara’s commentary two opinions stand side by side, of which, as it seems to us, the former alone corresponds to the text of the Upanishads and Bâdarâyaṇa’s Sûtras, while on the side of the latter are ranged the Commentary to the Taittirîya-Upanishad, which goes under Çaṅkara’s name, as well as the Vedântasâra, which likewise interprets the self of bliss as only a shell (Vedântasâra, § 56, ed. Boehtl.) and thus counts five shells on which, in combination with the three Guṇas of the Sâṅkhya Philosophy, the whole of its psychology is built up.