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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 5]
TRANSLATION
You have fully delineated the subject of impersonal Brahman as well as the knowledge derived therefrom. In spite of all this, why should you be despondent, thinking that you are undone, my dear prabhu.
PURPORT
The  Vedānta-sūtra  or  Brahma-sūtra  compiled by Śrī Vyāsadeva is the full deliberation of the impersonal absolute feature, and it is accepted as the most exalted philosophical exposition in the world. It covers the subject of eternity, and the methods are scholarly. So there cannot be any doubt about the transcendental scholarship of Vyāsadeva. So why should he lament?
TEXT 5
व्यास उवाच 
  अस्त्येव मे सर्वमिदं त्वयोक्तं 
  तथापि नात्मा परितुष्यते मे । 
  तन्मूतमन्त्रमगाधवोधं 
  पृच्छामहे त्वाऽऽत्मभवात्मभूतम् ॥५॥
vyāsa uvāca  
 asty eva me sarvam idam tvayoktam  
 tathāpi nātmā parituṣyate me  
 tan-mūlam avyaktam agādha-bodham  
 pṛcchāmahe tvātma-bhavātma-bhūtam
vyāsaḥ —Vyāsa;  uvāca —said;  asti —there is;  eva —certainly;  me —mine;  sarvam —all;  idam —this;  tvayā —by you;  uktam —uttered;  tathāpi —and yet;  na —not;  ātmā —self;  parituṣyate —does pacify;  me —unto me;  tat —of which;  mūlam —root;  avyaktam —undetected;  agādha-bodham —the man of unlimited knowledge;  pṛcchāmahe —do inquire;  tvā —unto you;  ātma-bhava —self-born;  ātma-bhūtam —offspring.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Vyāsadeva said: All you have said about me is perfectly correct. Despite all this, I am not pacified. I therefore question you about the root cause of my dissatisfaction, for you are a man of unlimited knowledge due