1.3.2
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.3.2
मुक्तोपसृप्यव्यपदेशाच् च
muktopasṛpyavyapadeśāc ca
The line
And because it is designated as what the released approach, the abode is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्).
नेपालीमा
र मुक्तहरू पुग्ने भनेर तोकिएकाले आश्रय ब्रह्म हो।
Where it sits
The āyatana (आयतन) of 1.3.1 is still the subject. Śaṅkara (शङ्कर) takes the approach as knowledge reaching what was always the self, not a journey to a second thing. Rāmānuja (रामानुज) takes the approach as real, the released soul remaining a self that reaches the supreme abode. Madhva takes release as reaching Viṣṇu (विष्णु), the soul never becoming him.
Split: mukta-upasṛpya-vyapadeśāt (मुक्त-उपसृप्य-व्यपदेशात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| mukta-upasṛpya-vyapadeśāt (मुक्त-उपसृप्य-व्यपदेशात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because it is designated as what the released approach |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
upasṛpya (उपसृप्य) is 'to be approached'. mukta is the released. The verse calls him the bridge of the deathless, the one to be known, the one other words are to be dropped for. That is a designation of a goal the released go to.
The pradhāna (प्रधान) is not a bridge anyone approaches by knowing. ca adds this designation to the text's own word 'self'.
Sanskrit in this line
upasṛpya (उपसृप्य) is the gerundive of upa plus sṛ (सृ). The compound is 'the designation as the upasṛpya (उपसृप्य) of the muktas'. Before ca, t is heard as c.
Say it back
Gloss upasṛpya (उपसृप्य) as 'to be approached', and remember that the three do not mean the same approach.