The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c6.s7.t3.3
The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c6.s7.t3.3
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c6.s7.t3.3
Nârada prays Sanatkumâra to teach him; and, in answer to the question: what he already knows, enumerates the four Vedas and a long series of other sciences. In the consciousness of their insufficiency, he adds: “I know, O venerable one, “the Mantras [here the whole practical theology], not the “Âtman [metaphysics]; for I have heard from those who are “like thee, that he who knows the Âtman is above sorrow; “but I, O Master, am sorrowful; lead thou me away from “sorrow!”