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

[sū. 2. 1. 13
ADH. 5 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 287
ordinary life, although pots, dishes and the rest, having the lump of
clay as their material cause, bracelets, ear-rings and the rest, having
gold as their material cause; foams, waves and the rest, having the
sea as their material cause; and leaves, fruits and the rest, having the
tree as their material cause, are all non-different from their respective
causes, there is still a mutual distinction amongst the particular
effects themselves In exactly the same manner, there may be
a mutual distinction between the enjoyer and the object enjoyed,
although they are non-different from Brahman, having Brahman
as their material cause Similarly, in spite of their non-distinction,
there may still be a distinction between the enjoyer and the controller ,
just as pots, dishes and the rest, though by nature non-different from
the clay, as having no existence and activity apart from the clay,
are yet by nature different, too, from the clay possessing as they do
their own peculiar attributes which the clay lacks. The same should
be known to be the case with the gold and bracelets and the rest too.
Likewise, there is a natural relation of difference—non-difference
between Brahman and the individual soul. There is, indeed, no
inconsistency here. Hence it is established that the doctrine of the
causality of Brahman is not open to the above objections.¹
Here ends the section entitled “Becoming the enjoyer” (5).
COMPARISON
Śaṁkara and Bhāskara
Interpretation different, viz. they interpret the sūtra like Śrīni-
vāsa, although while Śrīnivāsa understands the word “bhoktrā-
patteḥ” to mean ‘because the enjoyer will become the object enjoyed
and vice versa, as well because the enjoyer will become the controller
and vice versa’, they understand it to mean only ‘because the enjoyer
will become the object enjoyed and vice versa’. Each develops his
own peculiar theory in connection.²
¹ Note the different interpretations given by Nimbārka and Śrīnivāsa.
² Ś.B. 2.1.13, pp. 461 et seq.; Bh. B. 2.1.13, p. 92.