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[SŪ. 2. 1. 13.
286 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 5.]
between the enjoyer (viz. the individual soul) and the controller (viz.
Brahman) as well-known from the Veda,—
(We reply:) In spite of there being a non-distinction, there is
a distinction as well between the two, as between the sea and the
wave, and between the sun and its ray.
Vedānta-kaustubha
Now, having apprehended an objection once more, the author
is disposing of that here.
If it be objected: If Brahman who is without an equal or a superior
be the material cause of the world, then there must be no distinction
between the enjoyer and the object enjoyed. Why? “On account
of becoming the enjoyer” That is, all effects whatsoever being non-
different from their causes, the enjoyer, i.e. the individual soul, will
become the object enjoyed; and the object enjoyed, i.e. the body,
the sense-organs and the sense-objects, will become the enjoyer; and
hence, the distinction between the enjoyer and the object enjoyed,
well-known in ordinary life and in the Veda, will not be possible on
this doctrine of the causality of Brahman. Moreover, there will not
be any distinction between the enjoyer and the controller, because
the group of enjoyers being non-different from the controller, the
enjoyer will become the controller, and the controller, the Supreme
Soul, will become the enjoyer. In ordinary life, to begin with, the
distinction between the enjoyer and the object enjoyed is well-known,
thus ‘The individual soul is the enjoyer, the body and the rest are the
objects enjoyed’, and in the Veda too, thus: “Eats the sweet berry”
(Muṇḍ. 3.1.1; Śvet. 4.6). Similarly, the distinction between the
enjoyer and the controller, too, is well-known in ordinary life, as is
evident from the conduct of the good who always regard their pleasures
and pains as dependent on the Lord, and in the Veda too; thus: “He
alone makes one do good deeds” (Kauṣ. 3.8), “The soul which is
without the Lord is bound, because of being an enjoyer” (Śvet. 1.8)
and so on. Thus, “on account of becoming an enjoyer, there is non-
distinction”; and hence the doctrine of the causality of Brahman
cannot be accepted,—
The author states the correct conclusion in the words “It may be,
as in ordinary life”. That is, on our view, too, there may, indeed,
be a distinction between the enjoyer and the object enjoyed, as well as
between the enjoyer and the controller, “as in ordinary life”. In