1.4.19
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.4.19
वाक्यान्वयात्
vākyānvayāt
The line
The self to be seen is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्), because of the way the sentences connect.
नेपालीमा
हेर्नु भनिएको आत्मा ब्रह्म हो, वाक्यहरू जोडिने तरिकाका कारण।
Where it sits
A new passage, Maitreyī (मैत्रेयी)'s question. The method, anvaya of the sentences, is the samanvaya of 1.1.4 applied to one dialogue. The next three lines are three old teachers on why the individual shows up in that promise at all.
Split: vākya-anvayāt (वाक्य-अन्वयात्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| vākya-anvayāt (वाक्य-अन्वयात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because of the syntactic connection of the sentences |
The phrases
The passage is Yājñavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य) and Maitreyī (मैत्रेयी). The self is to be seen, heard, reflected on, meditated on. When the self is seen and heard, all this is known. The drum, the conch, and the lute are the examples: the sounds are not grasped apart from the instrument. All this is this self.
anvaya is the way the sentences construe with each other. They construe if the self to be seen is brahman (ब्रह्मन्), the one by knowing whom the unheard becomes heard. They do not construe if the self is only the individual, who is not the instrument of all sounds. The ablative is the reason.
Sanskrit in this line
vākya (वाक्य) plus anvaya: a plus a becomes ā (आ). anvaya is masculine, ablative -āt (-आत्). One word.
Say it back
Say the examples: drum, conch, lute. The many sounds are known from the one.