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[SŪ. 1. 3. 15.
166 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 5 ]
united with the Existent"' (Chānd. 6 8.1 ¹) If the karmadhāraya
compound be understood,² then Brahman alone is 'the mark', i.e.
the primary meaning of the word ('Brahma-loka') "as well".
Vedānta-kaustubha
For this reason too, says the author, the small ether is the Highest
Self.
The subsequent reasons are being amplified now. In the text
about the small-ether, viz : 'Just as those who do not know the place
move again and again over a hidden treasure of gold, but do not find
it, so these beings are going day by day to that world of Brahman
but do not find it, for they are carried away by untruth' (Chānd.
8.3.2), the phrase 'are going day by day' states the "going": and the
"word" is: 'this world of Brahman', (Brahma-loka)—on account of
these two, it is known that the small ether is the Highest Self. The
sense is that because of the going of the individual souls, indicated
by the term 'beings', to Brahman daily during deep sleep when all
the sense-organs are dissolved; and because of the word 'world of
Brahman', the small ether is ascertained to be none but the Highest
Self, as the individual soul is one who approaches (and hence cannot be
the goal approached), and as going is not appropriate on the part of the
elemental ether. "For thus it is seen", i.e. the going of all beings to
the Highest Self alone day by day during the state of deep sleep, as
well as their return therefrom, are found, in the very same manner, in
other passages too, viz.. "'So exactly, my dear, all these beings, being
united with the Existent, do not know, we have become united with
the Existent"' (Chānd. 6 9.2), "'Having come back from the Exis-
tent, they do not know: We have come back from the Existent'"
(Chānd. 6.10.1). In the very same manner, the term 'world of Brah-
man', too, is found applied to the Highest Self, as in the passage:
"'This is the world of Brahman, O king," said he' (Bṛh. 4 3.32)
The phrase 'that' (Chānd. 8.3 2) indicates the going of all beings
there (viz. to Brahman). That is, the term 'world of Brahma'
(Brahma-loka),—stated to be in apposition with the word 'that'
which denotes the 'small one', and explained as a karmadhāraya
compound thus: 'the world which is Brahman',—is "a mark", i.e.
a convincing proof, that the small ether is the Highest Brahman.

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¹ Op. cit. ² See below V.K.