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[sū. 2. 4. 10-11.
ADH. 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 461
SŪTRA 10
“BUT LIKE THE EYES AND THE REST, (THE VITAL-BREATH IS AN
INSTRUMENT OF THE SOUL), BECAUSE OF BEING AN OBJECT TO BE
TAUGHT TOGETHER WITH THEM AND SO ON.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
Though the best, the vital-breath is but a special instrument of
the individual soul, “like the eyes and the rest”. Why? “On
account of being an object to be taught and so on,” i.e. on account
of the teaching of the vital-breath together with the eyes and the
rest in the dialogue among the sense-organs and so on.
The author shows that the vital-breath, being under the control
of the individual soul, is serviceable to the soul like the eyes and the
rest
Vedānta-kaustubha
The meaning of the term “but” is that in spite of its superiority
to the sense-organs, no independence is possible on the part of the
vital-breath, as is possible on the part of the individual soul. The
vital-breath is “like the eyes and the rest”. That is, just as the eyes
and the rest are instruments of the individual soul, so the vital-breath
is a special instrument of the individual soul. To the question:
Whence is it known that it is an instrument of the soul?—We reply:
“Because of being an object to be taught together with them”, i.e.
because of the teaching of the vital-breath together with them, i.e.
together with the eyes and the rest, in the dialogue among the sense-
organs. By the phrase: “and so on”, reasons like non-sentience,
incapability of self-dependence and the rest are implied.
SŪTRA 11
“AND (THERE IS) NO FAULT ON THE GROUND OF (ITS) NOT BEING
A SENSE-ORGAN, FOR THUS (SCRIPTURE) SHOWS.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
If it be objected: If the vital-breath be an instrument of the
individual soul, then there being no activity suitable to it, there must
be fault “on the ground of (its) not being a sense-organ”,—