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

[SŪ. 1. 1. 1.
ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 13
(Chānd. 7. 26. 2). 'He is the best person, . . not remembering
this appendage of the body' (Chānd. 8.12.3), 'So exactly do the
seer's sixteen parts, going to the Person, on attaining the Person,
merge in (Him)' (Praśna 6.5), '"Just as the one sun manifests the
entire world, so O Bhārata, does the owner of the field (viz. the indivi-
dual soul) manifest the whole field (viz. the body)"' (Gītā 13 34), 'A
knower, for that very reason' (Br. Sū. 2.3.19), 'An agent, on account
of scripture having a sense (Br. Sū. 2.3.32).¹ 'I am thou, verily,
O Deity! he is I, I am Brahman, thus I bow down to the Death of
death', 'He shining alone, everything shines after him; through his
light all this shines' (Kaṭha 2 2.15), 'He alone makes him, whom
he wishes to lead upwards from these worlds, do good deeds. He alone
makes him, whom he wishes to lead downwards from these worlds,
do evil deeds' (Kaus. 3.8), 'Whether He may make him do good or
evil, not even thereby is the Lord in fault', 'The individual soul is
small in power, not independent and insignificant';² 'Atomic,
verily, is this soul. These two, merit and demerit, bind it', 'The
individual soul should be known as the hundredth part of the tip of
a hair, divided a hundredfold, yet it is capable of infinity' (Śvet.
5.9), 'Verily, (the soul) is perceived to be like the tip of the spoke
of a wheel only, and insignificant, through its quality of buddhi, and
through its own attributes' (Śvet. 5.8), '(There is the mention,
of departing, going and returning' (Br. Sū 2.3.19), 'If it be said,
not atomic, because Scripture declares what is not that, (we reply :)
no, because the topic is something else' (Br. Sū. 2.3.21), 'That designa-
tion is on account of having that quality for its essence, as in the
case of the Intelligent soul' (Br. Sū. 2.3.28);³ 'The Eternal
among the eternal, the Conscious among the conscious, the One
among the many, who bestows objects of desire' (Kaṭha 5.13), 'A
part, on account of the designation of a plurality' (Br. Sū. 2.3.42),⁴
"There is indeed another different soul, called the elemental soul,—
¹ These texts and aphorisms set forth the essential nature of the individual
soul, viz. that it is knowledge by nature, a knower, an agent and an enjoyer
² These texts also set forth the essential nature of the soul, viz. its
dependence on the Lord for its activity and its non-difference from Him in that
sense.
³ These texts and sūtras set forth the size of the soul, viz. its atomicity.
⁴ These texts and aphorisms set forth the number of the souls, viz. that
there is a plurality of souls