1.1.17
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.1.17
नेतरोऽनुपपत्तेः
netaro 'nupapatteḥ
The line
The individual soul is not meant, because that reading does not fit.
नेपालीमा
जीवात्मा भनिएको होइन, किनकि त्यो पढाइ मिल्दैन।
Where it sits
ānandamayaḥ (आनन्दमयः) from 1.1.13 is still the word whose referent is being fixed. itara is new: the rival inside the same passage, after the pradhāna (प्रधान) has already been refused.
Split: na (न) + itaraḥ (इतरः) + anupapatteḥ (अनुपपत्तेः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| na (न) | indeclinable | not |
| itaraḥ (इतरः) | nominative singular, masculine | the other, the individual soul |
| anupapatteḥ (अनुपपत्तेः) | ablative singular, feminine | because it does not fit |
The phrases
itara is the one left over once brahman (ब्रह्मन्) is proposed: the soul that tastes joy and then loses it. anupapatti is a failure to fit. A limited taster is not the cause of bliss, and is not what the mantra sings.
The line blocks the reading that ānandamaya (आनन्दमय) is only the soul in the bliss-sheath. The soul is in the passage. The soul is not the one the repeated bliss is naming.
Sanskrit in this line
itaraḥ (इतरः) before a vowel becomes itaro, and the next a drops: itaro 'nupapatteḥ (नुपपत्तेः). na joins itara and is heard netaro.
Say it back
Gloss itara as the individual soul, and say what fails to fit.
Next
1.1.18. The text itself states a difference between the enjoyer and the blissful Brahman (ब्रह्मन्).