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[SŪ. 1. 4. 21.
254 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 6.]
case of the pot and the clay, standing in the relation of effect and
cause, the word 'pot' refers to the clay as well. This being so, the
initial proposition too, viz. that through the knowledge of one, there
is the knowledge of all, is established,—such is the view of Āśmarathya.
The meaning of the words of the aphorism is as follows. This, really,
is "a mark" or a convincing proof "of the establishment of the initial
proposition", viz. that through the knowledge of one, there is the
knowledge of all. What mark? Listen ¹ The individual soul being
non-different from the Supreme Soul as His effect, by the word
"individual soul" the Supreme Soul is designated,—so the teacher
Āśmarathya thinks
SŪTRA 21
"ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH A CONDITION OF ONE WHO IS ABOUT TO
DEPART, AUḌULOMI (THINKS SO)"
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
On account of the union of the individual soul, about to depart
from the body, with Brahman, Brahman is denoted by a word denoting
the individual soul,—so Auḍulomi thinks.
Vedānta-kaustubha
"On account of such a condition," i e. on account of the union
of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul,—of the soul which "is
about to depart" from the aggregation of the body and the sense-
organs, in accordance with the text: 'As the flowing rivers disappear
into the sea, leaving names and forms, so a knower, freed from name
and form, attains the celestial Person, higher than the high' (Chānd.
8.3.4), which is endowed with the hearing, the thinking, the meditation
and the direct vision of Brahman; and which is well-known to be
unborn from the scriptural and Smṛti texts like. 'A wise man is
neither born, nor dies' (Kaṭha 2.18), 'This is unborn, eternal,
constant' (Gītā 2.20), i.e. on account of its attaining the state of
Brahman, the Supreme Soul is denoted by a term denoting the
individual soul,—so thinks the teacher Auḍulomi. On this view,
there is a difference between the individual soul and Brahman during
the soul's state of bondage, and non-difference during its state of