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[SŪ. 2. 3. 14.
402 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 5.]
Adhikarana 5: The section entitled “The
reverse”. (Sūtra 14)
SŪTRA 14
“BUT THE ORDER (OF DISSOLUTION) (IS) REVERSE TO THAT, AND
(THIS) FITS IN.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The order of dissolution is reverse “to that”, i e. to the order of
creation”, in accordance with the scriptural text: ‘The earth merged
in water’ (Subāla 2.4¹). “And” this “fits in” on the principle of
salt and water.
Vedānta-kaustubha
Thus, the order of the origin of elements has been determined in
brief. Now, incidentally, their order of dissolution is being determined.
On the doubt as to whether the order of dissolution is the same as
the order of creation, or reverse, the suggestion being: Since even
when the prior created object is destroyed, the posterior one is possible,
(dissolution takes place) through the same order as that of origination
alone.—
(The author) states the correct conclusion: “But the order is
reverse to that”. The order of dissolution must be understood to be
the “reverse” “to that”, i.e. to the order of the origination of objects,
which is mentioned in Scripture in the text: ‘From this soul, verily,
the ether originated, from the ether the air, from the air the fire,
from the fire water, from water the earth’ (Tait. 2.1), ‘“What was,
then, existent?” He said, to them: “Neither being, nor non-being,
nor being and non-being. From him darkness arises, from darkness
bhūtādi,² from bhūtādi the ether, from the ether the air, from
the air the fire, from the fire water, from water the earth.
That egg arose”’ (Subāla 1.1–3); and which is established by a
thousand Smṛti passages, viz. ‘The divinity is without beginning and
without end, likewise, indivisible, ageless, immortal; celebrated to be
unmanifest, constant, likewise undecaying, and immortal; sprung
up from whom beings are born and die. That divinity first created
what is called mahat from name, the great ahaṁkāra as well. Mahat

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¹ P. 465.
² Or the tāmasa ahaṁkāra. Vide V.R.M., p 25.