Emancipating Enlightenment (2012 Edition)

This Brahmasutras of Sage Badarayana (traditionally identified with sage Vyasa) are one of the triad of canonical texts, the Prasthana-traya, of the esteemed Vedanta school of philosophy. It would be no exaggeration to affirm that the Brahmasutras, together with the Brahmasutra-bhasya, the superb commentary thereon by Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada, occupy a pride of place in the system of Advaita-vedanta. Profound in thought, broad in scope, authoritative, invaluable for spiritual aspirants and a delight for scholars, the sutras and the bhasya have, from hundreds of years ago to this day, been traditionally taught and studied by monks and analysed and debated upon much in the assemblies of distinguished scholars of Vedanta.

His Holiness Jagadguru anantasri Bharathi Theertha Mahaswamigal, the 36the Shankaracharya of the holy Srinegi Sharada Peetham, a nonpareli scholar of various sastras, inclusive of Nyaya and Vedanta, blessed His innumerable disciples with eleven benedictory discourses on the Bhahmasutras and the bhasya thereon during Hi