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[SŪ. 1. 2. 19.
ADH 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 121
presiding deity is declared to abide in the eye through the rays, (and
hence does not himself abide within the eyes ¹); and finally, because
immortality, fearlessness, ‘being the uniter of lovely things’ and the rest
are not possible on the part of any one other than Him. Hence, it
is established that the Highest Soul alone is to be worshipped as the
person within the eye.
Here ends the section entitled ‘That which is within’ (4).
COMPARISON
Śrīkaṇṭha
Interpretation different, viz he takes this sūtra as forming an
adhikaraṇa by itself, concerned with the question whether the Person,
of the size of a thumb merely, (Mahānār. 16 3) is the Lord or someone
else. Thus: ‘(The person, of the size of a thumb, is the Lord),
because of the instability (i.e. unsuitableness), as well as because of
the impossibility (of the attributes of “having the entire world as the
body”, “being the devourer of the entire world”, and so on, on the part
of any one else)’.²
Adhikaraṇa 5. The section entitled ‘The inner
controller’. (Sūtras 19–21)
SŪTRA 19
“THE INNER CONTROLLER IN THE PRESIDING DEITIES AND THE
REST, AND IN THE WORLDS AND THE REST (IS THE HIGHEST SELF),
ON ACCOUNT OF THE DESIGNATION OF HIS QUALITIES.” ³
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The inner controller,—mentioned repeatedly in all the versions
in reference to the presiding deities of the earth and the rest, in the
passage which begins ‘He who, abiding within the earth’, and

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¹ Vide Śrī. B. 1.1.18, p. 354, Part 1.
² ŚK B. 1.1.18, pp. 364–66, Part 4.
³ Cf. the different readings:—K.S.S. ed. and Brindaban ed. read ‘adhi-
devādi’. C S.S ed. reads ‘adhidaivādhi’