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[SŪ. 1. 2. 16.
ADH. 4.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 115
introductory text · 'The vital-breath, is Brahman, pleasure is Brahman,
the ether is Brahman' (Chānd. 4 10.4), pleasure that is Brahman,
i.e Brahman characterized by pleasure, is mentioned, and that alone
is referred to here
SŪTRA 16
“ALSO FOR THAT VERY REASON, THAT IS BRAHMAN.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
“That”, i.e. pleasure, is “Brahman”, i.e. Brahman alone is charac-
terized by pleasure. Why? On account also of the text, establishing
their mutual specification ¹, viz. ‘What, verily, is pleasure, that is the
ether ; what is the ether, that is pleasure’ (Chānd 4.10.5 ²)
Vedānta-kaustubha
To the objection, viz The word ‘pleasure’ conventionally denotes
wordly pleasure, so how can it be said that Brahman is characterized
by pleasure?—the reverend teacher of the Veda replies here:
“That is Brahman.” This means that in that introductory text,
Brahman alone, characterized by pleasure, is mentioned and not
worldly pleasure. Why? “Also for that very reason,” i e. on account
also of the text intimating their mutual specification, viz. ‘What,
verily, is pleasure that is the ether; what is the ether, that is pleasure’
(Chānd 4 10.5), for worldly pleasure cannot consistently refer to an
all-pervading substance—denoted by the term ‘ether’—as non-different
from itself.
COMPARISON
Śaṃkara, etc.
This Sūtra is omitted by Śaṃkara, Bhāskara and Baladeva.
Rāmānuja
Reading different, viz. ‘Ata-eva ca sa Brahma’. Interpretation
too different, viz. ‘For that very reason (i.e because the ether is
characterized by pleasure), that (viz. the ether) is Brahman’.³
¹ I e ka (pleasure) qualifies kha (ether) and vice versa.
² R, ŚK.
³ Śrī B 1 2.6, pp 252-253, Part 1.