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[sū. 1. 2. 7.
ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 101
3.14 3), also on account of the designation of its smallness in the text :
‘Smaller than a grain of rice, or’ (Chānd. 3.14 3; Śat. Br. 10 6.3 2¹),
(the object of meditation) here is not Brahman,—
(We reply ) “Not so”, because Brahman is to be meditated on
in that way. Minuteness on the part of a great thing, however, fits
in, as in the case of a window and the ether.
Vedānta-kaustubha
If it be objected.—Brahman cannot be understood here as the
object of meditation. Why? “On account of its occupying a small
abode and on account of the designation of that ” That is, that which
has a small abode, i e. place, viz. the individual soul which is like
the tip of the spoke of a wheel, is ‘arbhakaukas’, the state of that is
‘arbhakaukastvam’, on account of that,²—the resulting meaning
being: ‘on account of the characteristic mark of the individual soul’.
That is to say, occupying a limited place, viz. the heart, is the attribute
of the individual soul only, and not the attribute of Brahman. More-
over, “on account of the designation” of smallness by that very term
(viz ‘small’), in the passage ‘Smaller than a grain of rice, or a
barley-corn’ (Chānd. 3.14 3; Śat. Br. 10 6 3.2), the individual soul
alone is to be understood here, and not Brahman,—
(We reply ) “No.” Why? It is “because (Brahman) is to
be conceived thus”,—i e. “Because (Brahman) is to be conceived”,
or to be meditated on, “thus”, i.e. as abiding within the heart, small
in size,—that the Highest Self is designated in that way. And,
hereby His omnipresence is not contradicted. For, He is designated
to be minute with the object of designating a particular kind of medita-
tion on Him as very subtle. Nor, again, does He become small in
size (i.e small like the heart) hereby, since the text: ‘Greater than
the earth, greater than the sky’ (Chānd. 3 14.3) speaks of the great-
ness of the Lord. An analogous case is the following Just as the
ether, though all-pervasive, is spoken of as occupying a small place
and as small in reference to the eye of a needle, so is Brahman, the
topic of discussion,—this is the sense.
¹ P. 806, line 18.
² This explains the compound ‘arbhakaukastvāt’.