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Brahma Sutras

The systematic Vedanta of Shankara, in commentary on the aphorisms of Badarayana

Translator: Swami Vireswarananda (1892–1985), 1936.

Licence: Free distribution. Swami Vireswarananda's 1936 translation, with the Sanskrit text, word-for-word translation, English rendering, and comments, published by Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati. Distributed under the Ramakrishna Order's long-standing policy permitting free reproduction of its translations of foundational texts for non-commercial spiritual study. Lightly modernised by Soul Spirit Self.

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The third foundational text of Vedanta, after the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. Badarayana's terse aphorisms, perhaps four words each, condense the Upanishadic teaching into a system. Shankara's commentary, written some thousand years later, becomes the systematic articulation of Advaita and the basis of the entire later school.