[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c8.s1.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s1.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s1.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s1.2) Even within the fold of Advaitins, Śaṅkara is countered by the theorists who hold the Jñānakarmasamuccayavāda (theory of synthesis between knowledge and action). Śaṅkara at least concedes to it as a possibility in his \*bhāṣya\* on \*Kaṭhopaniṣad\* (1.17). But then he firmly refutes the synthesis between action and knowledge as his final verdict in his \*bhāṣya\* on \*Taittirīya Upaniṣad\* (I.11.4). On the very first aphorism of \*Brahmasūtra\*, Śaṅkarācārya in his \*bhāṣya\* raises the question of the non-essentiality of \*dharma-jijñāsā\* (inquiry in \*dharma\*) and asserts that it is not a prerequisite for pursuing inquiry into the Ultimate Reality or \*Brahman\*. \*Brahma-jijñāsā\* can be acquired even before the acquisition of \*dharma\*; and that nothing remains to be done after the acquisition of the true knowledge of \*Brahman\* is the beauty of the Advaita system.¹ - [Previous: c8.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s1.1) - [Next: c8.s1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s1.3) - [Up: c8.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s1) ## Linked texts (3) - [Kaṭhopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.1.17) — Sanskrit - [Taittirīyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.taittiriya.1.11.4) — Sanskrit - [Brahmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vedanta.brahmasutra) — Bādarāyaṇa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s1.2) · Pramāṇa