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[sū. 1. 3. 15.
ADH. 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 165
heart’ (Chānd. 8.1.3) the small ether, i.e. the Supreme Being alone,
is compared to the well-known ether, since when two different things
can be reasonably held to be the object with which the thing is com-
pared and the object compared, it is unreasonable to suppose one and
the same thing to be both (viz. upamāna and upameya). ‘Being the
supporter of all effects’ too, mentioned in the passage: ‘In it both
the heaven and the earth are contained’ (Chānd. 8.1.3), fits in on
the part of the Highest Self alone. The attributes like ‘being the
soul’, ‘being free from sins’ and the rest, mentioned in the passage:
‘This soul is free from sins, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, without
hunger, without thirst, possessed of true desires, possessed of true
resolves’ (Chānd. 8.1.5), fit in only if the Highest Self be understood.
Moreover, after having designated the non-permanency of the fruits of
works and their incapacity of knowing Him in the passage ‘As here
the world won by work perishes, so hereafter the world won by merit
perishes’ (Chānd. 8.1.6), Scripture concludes: ‘Now, those who
depart, having known the soul here and those true desires, come to
have free movement in all the worlds’ (Chānd. 8.1.6). That is, those
worshippers who ‘depart’ to the other world, ‘having known’, i.e.
having realized ‘the soul’, i.e. the Supreme Lord called ‘the small’,
and ‘those’, i.e. His qualities, come to have free movement in all the
worlds. Accordingly, the small ether is the Highest Self, since then
alone free movement is explicable on the part of those who know the
nature and qualities of the ‘small one’.
SŪTRA 15
“ON ACCOUNT OF GOING AND OF WORD, FOR THUS IT IS SEEN,
THERE IS A MARK AS WELL.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The “going” is mentioned in the text: ‘All beings are going day
by day’ (Chānd. 8.3.2 ¹), and the “word” is ‘The world of Brahman’
(Chānd. 8.3.2 ²),—on account of these two, the ‘small one’ is ascer-
tained to be the Supreme Being. The daily going is “seen thus”
in another scriptural text too, viz.: ‘“Then, my dear, he comes to be

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¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ² Op. cit.