?r?la Baladeva Vidy?bh??a?a

Brahma Sutras ?r?la Baladeva Vidy?bh??a?a

The Ved?nta-s?tra, which consists of aphorisms revealing the method of understanding Vedic knowledge, is the concise form of all Vedic knowledge. The aphorisms or s?tras of Ved?nta-s?tra were compiled by ?r?la Vy?sadeva, a powerful incarnation of ?r? N?r?ya?a. All the authorized and established samprad?yas have their own commentary on Ved?nta-s?tra. However, no one in Gau??ya Samprad?ya has written a commentary on Ved?nta-s?tra, until sometimes back, in Jaipur, the Gau??yas were challenged that "The Gau??ya Samprad?ya has no commentary on the Ved?nta-s?tra." So Baladeva Vidy?bh??ana, with the order of Govindaji at Jaipur, he wrote the commentary on Brahma-s?tra, which is called Govinda-bh??ya. From then, it became the commentary on Brahma-s?tra for the Gau??ya Samprad?ya. The philosophy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, which amalgamated the views of all the previous Acaryas in His thesis of Acintya-bhedabheda Tattva, is explicitly explained by Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana in his Govinda Bhasya of the Vedanta-sutra. The Ved?nta-s?tra, which is well known among scholars by the following additional names: (1) Brahma-s?tra, (2) ??r?raka, (3) Vy?sa-s?tra, (4) B?dar?ya?a-s?tra, (5) Uttara-m?m??s? and (6) Ved?nta-dar?ana. - Compiled from lectures, purports, and conversations of ?r?la Prabhup?da, Founder-?c?rya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)