Swami Sivananda, an Advaita scholar, reiterates the same views in his commentary synthesising Vedanta views on the Brahma Sutras, a Vedantic text.

In his commentary on Chapter 3 of the Brahma Sutras, Sivananda notes that karma is insentient and short-lived, and ceases to exist as soon as a deed is executed.

* Bādarāyaņa ( c. 200 BCE ), author of Brahma Sutras, expounding Advaita Vedanta.

The law of noncontradiction is found in ancient Indian logic as a meta-rule in the Shrauta Sutras, the grammar of Pāṇini, and the Brahma Sutras attributed to Vyasa.

The standard texts of Vedanta philosophy, to which Shankara also belonged, were the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras.

Further use of apophatic theology is found in the Brahma Sutras, which state:

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In the literary traditions of the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, conscience is the label given to attributes composing knowledge about virtues and vices but also good and evil, that a soul acquires from the completion of acts and consequent accretion of karma over many lifetimes.

The guru instructed Shankara to write a commentary on the Brahma Sutras and propagate the Advaita philosophy.

Sōtō Zen, like all of Zen, relies on the Prajnaparamita Sutras, as well as general Mahayana Buddhist sutras, such as the Lotus Sutra, the Brahma Net Sutra and the Lankavatara Sutra.

The key source texts for all schools of Vedānta are the Prasthanatrayi — the canonical texts consisting of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras.

500 to 100 BCE ) organized knowledge into Sutra treatises, including the Vedanga and the religious or philosophical Brahma Sutras, Yoga Sutras, Nyaya Sutras.

Adi Shankara says in his Introduction to his commentary on the Brahma Sutras, " Owing to an absence of discrimination, there continues a natural human behaviour in the form of ' I am this ' or ' This is mine '; this is avidya.

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Sharma, ` The Brahma Sutras and Their Principal Commentaries ', 3 vols., Munshiram Manoharlal, 1986.

Tanka is attributed with having written commentaries on Chandogya Upanishad and Brahma Sutras.

Ramanuja continues along the line of thought of his predecessors while expounding the knowledge expressed in the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras and Bhagavad Gita.

Vyasa was not only believed to have been born on this day, but also to have started writing the Brahma Sutras on ashadha sudha padyami which ends on this day, hence their recitations as a dedication to him, are organised on this day, which is also known as Vyasa Purnima.

The Brahma Sutras are attributed to Badarayana.

In the 12-13th century, Madhvacharya wrote commentaries on Brahma Sutras, which describe the supremacy of Lord Vishnu or Narayana.

Thus he laid out the foundation for Tatvavaada or Dvaita tradition of Vedanta refuting all the previous commentaries on Brahma Sutras.

According to Brahma Kumaris, a spiritual organisation which is based on Hindu philosophy, sex lust is the greatest enemy to mankind and the gateway to hell.

According to Gaudiya Vaishnavas, Brahma is the secondary creator and not the supreme.

According to the Matangalila, Airavata was born when Brahma sang sacred hymns over the halves of the egg shell from which Garuda hatched, followed by seven more male and eight female elephants.

According to Hindu legend, Daksha is said to be the son of Brahma.

According to Hindu cosmology, life in the universe is created, destroyed once every 4. 1 to 8. 2 billion years, which is one full day ( day and night ) for Brahma.

According to one interpretation of Puranic Hinduism, the world is believed to have been created 158. 7 trillion years ago ( 50 " years of Brahma ").

According to a later writer, the system of medicine was received by Dhanvantari from Brahma, and Dhanvantari was deified as the god of medicine.

According to Hindu mythology, just after creating the universe, Lord Brahma performed the Ashvamedha at Bithoor and established a lingam there.

According to Hindu mythology, the lake was drained by the great rishi or sage, Kashyapa, son of Marichi, son of Brahma, by cutting the gap in the hills at Baramulla ( Varaha-mula ).

According to Venerable Tripitaka Master Bhikshu Shramana Hsuan Hua's " Shurangama Mantra Commentary " ( Buddhist Text Translation Society of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 1981, Volume 1 ), the Shurangama Mantra mystically and literally includes all of the Buddha Dharma in its entirety, and its focus is on the Five Dhyana Buddhas ( Vairochana, Amitabha ), Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, with stress on Vairochana and Ashobhya Buddhas ) and their retinues of Dharmapalas and wrathful deities in male and female forms, such as Vajrapani, wrathful Manjushri, Mahakala, Tara, Pandaravasini, Prakruti, Uchushma Fire Head Vajra, Brahma, Indra, Shiva as Rudra, Raudri-Umapati form of Vajrayogini, Narayana, Ganapati, various Dhakinis, Naga kings, Yaksha kings, Rakshasha kings, and many other Dharma Protectors of the Buddhist Pantheon and Vedic pantheon.

According to the Puranas, during the meeting of Brahma and Shiva at top of Mount Kailash Brahma failed to show the due respect to Shiva.

According to Ramanujacharya, Brahma creates physical form and Maheshwara or shiva destroys physical form, while Vishnu who is BRAHMAN shows us ( the souls ) the path or teaches us how to attain Moksha and join BRAHMAN by following the Dharmas of life.

According to the Sloka Chaturvarga Chintamani, Lord Brahma created the universe on the first day of Shukla paksha ( first fortnight / first half of the month ) in the month of Chaitra.

According to Dharmashastras " Brahma Vivah " is the best marriage among all .`` The son born of the Brahma marriage sanctifies 21 GENERATION .-( that of the Daiva marriage 14 generations that of Arsha marriage and Kayah marriage six each.

According to the Hindu religion, the lake was first created in the mind of the Lord Brahma after which it manifested on Earth.

According to Chapter 44 of the Brahmananda Purana, Brahma and Shiva once got into a heated quarrel.

According to the Brahma Sutras, individual souls are responsible for their own fate ; God is merely the dispenser and witness with reference to the merit and demerit of souls.

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According to Dharmashastras, " Brahma Vivah " is the best marriage among all.

According to the Dharmashastra, Daiva marriage is considered inferior to Brahma marriage because it is considered degrading for the womanhood to look for groom.

According to legend, the temple was constructed by Lord Brahma himself.

According to the Brahma Purana, this is the day on which Brahma created the world after the deluge and time began to tick from this day forth.