ABSTRACT
Bhaskara wrote Commentaries upon the Sutras and in so doing explained his own and Oudulumi’s philosophy. In the main he attempted an attack upon Samkara’s doctrine of maya. He therefore lived after Samkara—according to Indian authorities, in the early part of the ninth century. Brahman is one without a second, the unchangeable reality, endowed with blessed attributes, including the power to create, sustain, and dissolve the universe. Individual souls are many, and they are parts of Brahman. They are related to him as are the rays of the sun to the sun. They are neither absolutely different from God, nor are they absolutely identical with him. Brahman as cause contains the whole universe potentially within himself, and the universe is the cause actualized, though in part only, since the cause has not exhausted itself in the effect.
