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

[sŪ. 2. 3. 48.
ADH. 12.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 443
desirous of heaven should perform sacrifices’ (Tait. Sam 2 5.5),
‘Hence a Śūdra is not to be initiated to a sacrifice’ (Tait Sam. 7.1.1)
fit in on account of their connection with different bodies, “as in the
case of fire and so on”, i.e just as in spite of being the same, fire is
brought from the house of a Śrotriya, but one from crematory and the
like is rejected; and just as the urine and excrement of cows and the
like are enjoined as holy, but those very things of different animals
are rejected.
COMPARISON
Śaṃkara and Bhāskara
He develops in this connection his doctrine of Adhyāsa.¹
Bhāskara too speaks of his peculiar doctrine of Upādhi.
Baladeva
This is sūtra 46 in his commentary. He continues the same
theme,—viz. the distinction between incarnations and ordinary
individuals. He interprets the sūtra thus: (In the case of individual
souls there are) injunctions and prohibitions, on account of (their)
connection with bodies, as in the case of light (i e. the eye).² That is,
the individual soul, though a part of the Lord, is yet connected with
nescience and a body, and is as such under the control of the Lord
for its activity and inactivity and so on. But an incarnation, though
a part of the Lord, is not under His control; just as the eye or the
power of vision, though a part of the sun, depends upon the per-
mission, i.e. the presence, of the sun for its activity or otherwise, but
a ray of the sun, as a part of the sun, is identical with it, and does not
depend upon any permission and the like of the sun.
SŪTRA 48
“AND ON ACCOUNT OF NON-EXTENSION THERE IS NO EXTENSION.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
In spite of the fact that the individual souls are parts of the
all-pervasive Being, and in spite of the fact that they themselves are
1 Ś.B. 2.3.48, pp. 640 ff , Bh. B. 2.3.48. p. 142.
2 G B. 2.3.46. pp. 226-27, Chap 2.