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FIRST CHAPTER (Adhyāya)
SECOND QUARTER (Pāda)
Adhikarana 1: The section entitled ‘Celebrity
everywhere’. (Sūtras 1-8)
SŪTRA 1
“(THAT WHICH CONSISTS OF MIND IS BRAHMAN), BECAUSE OF THE
TEACHING OF WHAT IS CELEBRATED EVERYWHERE.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
Beginning ‘All this, verily, is Brahman, emanating from him
disappearing into him and breathing in him,—tranquil, let one medi-
tate on him thus’ (Chānd. 3.14.1 ¹), Scripture continues: ‘Consisting
of mind, having the vital breath for his body’ (Chānd 3.14.2 ²).
Here, the object which is to be meditated on as consisting of mind is
to be understood as the Highest self, the cause of all, and not as the
individual soul. Why? Because the highest self alone, celebrated
in all the Vedāntas, is taught in the above passages, viz. ‘All this,
verily, is Brahman’ (Chānd. 3.14.1)
Vedānta-kaustubha
Thus, in the first section, the concordance of the scriptural texts
with regard to the holy Lord Vāsudeva has been shown,—He who is
the object of enquiry, the greatest Being, the cause of the origin and
‘the rest of the world, having Scripture for His sole proof, omniscient,
without an equal or a superior and the one mass of infinite auspicious
qualities. Now, in the following two sections, the reverend teacher
of the Veda is showing that those texts,—some of which indistinctly
indicate the individual soul and the rest, and some of which distinctly
do so,—all refer to Him alone.
The Chāndogas record the following ‘All this, verily, is Brahman,
emanating from him, disappearing into him, and breathing in him,—
tranquil, let one meditate (on him) thus. Now, a person consists of
¹ Ś, R, Bh, B.      ² Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B.