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292 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [sū. 2. 1 16.
ADH. 6.]
Vedānta-kaustubha
For this reason also, says the author, there is non-difference between the effect and the cause
between the effect and the cause
Whence is it known that there is non-difference between the effect
and the cause ? Because the effect is perceived, only when the cause
is existent, in accordance with the scriptural text '"These beings,
my dear, have the existent as their root"' (Chānd. 6.8 4).
COMPARISON
Rāmānuja, Śrīkaṇṭha and Baladeva
They interpret the sūtra in just the opposite way, viz. "And
because of the perception (of the cause) on the existence (of the effect)"
That is, the gold, which is the cause, is perceived when the ear-ring
is present. That is, the gold alone is perceived in the ear-ring, and
not the clay.¹
SŪTRA 16
"AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE POSTERIOR."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
"On account of the existence" of the effect,—belonging to a pos-
terior time,—in the cause, owing to the designation of their co-inherence
in the text: "Brahman, verily, was this in the beginning" (Bṛh.
1 4.10 ²), there is non-difference between the effect and the cause.
Vedānta-kaustubha
For this reason too, there is non-difference between the effect
and the cause.
"On account of the existence" of the effect,—which is "posterior"
and denoted by the term 'this',—in the cause, owing to the designation
of their co-inherence, in the texts '"The existent alone, my dear, was
this in the beginning"' (Chānd. 6.2.1), "Brahman, verily, was this
¹ Śrī B. 2.1.16, p. 46, Part 2; ŚK. B. 2 1 16, p. 22, Parts 7 and 8; G.B
2.1.15, p. 45, Chap. 2.
² Not quoted by others.