The commentary of Rāmānuja

Sri Bhashya

श्रीभाष्य

In the eleventh century Rāmānuja took up the terse aphorisms of Bādarāyaṇa's Brahma-Sūtras and wrote upon them the Śrī Bhāshya — the great defence of Viśiṣṭādvaita, the vision of one Brahman who is personal, full of auspicious qualities, and the inner Self of all souls and the world. It is at once a work of rigorous philosophy and of deep devotion, the intellectual root of the Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition the Ālvārs sang. The commentary on the very first sūtra contains his famous point-by-point reply to Śaṅkara's Advaita. It is read here in four adhyāyas, each of four pādas, one sūtra at a time.