वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[sū. 2. 1. 5.
ADH. 3.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 277
6 1 3, 4¹), 'The waters spoke' (Śat. Br. 6 1.3, 2²), 'These sense-
organs, disputing about self-supremacy, went to Brahmā' (Bṛh
6 1 7), 'They said to speech "Do you sing for us"' (Bṛh 1.3.2)
and so on, it is known that of the effects too are sentient; and hence
they have no difference from the material cause—
We reply: The word "but" disposes of the stated objection.
There is no designation of sentience on the part of the effects, and
so they cannot have Brahman for their material cause; but there
is the designation of only the presiding deities of earth and the
rest in the passages, 'The earth spoke to him' (Tait. Sam. 5.5.2, 3)
and so on. Why? "On account of speciality and following", i e.
on account of the specification of the earth and the rest by the word
'deity' in the passage "'Very well, let me enter into these three
deities'" (Chānd. 6.3.2), and on account of the specifications of the
sense-organs by the word 'deity' in the passages 'These deities,
verily, disputing about self-supremacy' (Kauṣ. 2.14), 'These deities,
verily, having known superiority in the vital breath' (Kauṣ 2 14),
as well as 'on account of the following' of fire and the rest as the
presiding deities of speech and the rest, i.e on account of the scrip-
tural mention of following, or entering, in the passage: 'Fire, becoming
speech, entered the mouth,—the sun, becoming sight, the eyes
(Ait. 2 4) Hence the world being different from Brahman, Brahman
is not its material cause.
COMPARISON
Baladeva
Literal interpretation same, but import different, since he takes
this Sūtra as an adhikaraṇa by itself, not laying down a prima facie
view, but the correct conclusion. Thus, the Sūtra means according
to him "(If it be objected: How to reconcile the absurd sayings of
the Vedas, such as 'Fire willed to be many' and so on?). We reply: (In
those passages) there is the designation of the presiding (deities) (of
fire and the rest), on account of speciality and following (i.e. entering
into)".³
¹ P. 505, line 12.
² Op. cit., line 9.
³ G.B. 2.1.5, p. 18, Chap. 2.