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[sū. 1. 3. 2.
ADH. 1 ] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 145
ways. Finally, to be the support of the instruments of the individual
soul, too, is possible on the part of the Supreme Soul who is the support
of all The following aphorisms ¹, secondary in nature, are but
amplifications of this primary aphorism
SŪTRA 2
"ON ACCOUNT OF THE DESIGNATION (OF BRAHMAN) THE OBJECT
TO BE APPROACHED BY THE FREED."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The support of the heaven, the earth and the rest is Brahman
alone Why? "On account of the designation," of such a support
alone as "the object to be approached by the freed", in the passage
'When the seer sees the golden-coloured Creator, the Lord, the
Person, the source of Brahmā, then the knower, having discarded
merit and demerit, stainless, attains the highest identity' (Muṇḍ.
3 1 13 ²) and so on.
Vedānta-kaustubha
The support of the heaven, the earth and the rest is none but
Brahman Why? "On account of the designation (of Brahman)
as the object to be approached by the freed." That which is to
be approached, i e. obtained, by those who are freed from the fettor
of mundane existence is "the object to be approached by the freed",
on account of the "designation", 1.e. indication, of that ³. The
sense is: The reality that is admitted to be the support of the heaven,
the earth and the rest, to be one, to be the bridge to immortality,
and is celebrated elsewhere also as the object to be approached by
the freed,—that very same reality, the one topic of all the Vedas
and without an equal or a superior, is designated as the object to be
obtained by the freed, in the passages: 'The knot of the heart is
undone, all doubts are cut off, and his works perish, when he, who is
high and low, is seen' (Muṇḍ. 2.2.8), 'Just as the flowing rivers
disappear into the ocean discarding name and form, so the knower,
freed from name and form, goes to the Person, who is higher than
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¹ Viz. Br. Sū. 1.3.2–7. ² R, ŚK, B.
³ This explains the compound 'muktopasṛpya-vyapadeśāt'.
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