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[SŪ. 2. 4. 18.
ADH. 7.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 469
other than the chief, are the sense-organs' Otherwise, the eye and the
rest too being understood—like apāna and so on—simply by the
phrase. 'From him arise the vital-breath', the separate mention:
'and all the sense-organs' must be meaningless. Hence the sense-
organs being separate entities, their relation with the possessor of the
vital-breath or the individual soul must be depicted to be certainly
different from their relation with the vital-breath.
It cannot be said also that the mind too, which is separately
designated, cannot be a sense-organ,—since in accordance with the
Smṛti passages, viz.. "The sense-organs of which the mind is the sixth"
(Gītā 15.7), "The sense-organs are ten and one" (Gītā 13 6), as well
as in accordance with the scriptural text: 'There are ten sense-organs
in a person, the soul is the eleventh' (Bṛh. 3.9 4), the mind as well is
admitted to be a sense-organ. The separate designation of the mind,
too, is not futile, since the mind being the leader of the sense-organs
in conformity with the text: '"And of the sense-organs, I am the
mind"' (Gītā 10.22), such a separate mention has a meaning. By
the scriptural text: '"Come let us assume all become a form of him
alone"' (Bṛh. 1.5.21), on the other hand, it is denoted simply that the
activities of the sense-organs are under the control of the vital-breath.
The sense-organs, also, being under the vital-breath, are called 'vital-
breaths',¹ just as in the text: 'All this verily, is Brahman' (Chānd.
3.14.1), the term 'Brahman' has been applied to the world, it being
under His control.
SŪTRA 18
"ON ACCOUNT OF THE SCRIPTURAL TEXT REGARDING DIFFERENCE
AND ON ACCOUNT OF DIFFERENCE."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
"On account of the scriptural mention of the difference" of the
chief vital-breath from speech and the rest at the end of the section
treating of speech, etc. thus: 'Then, verily, they said to the breath
in the mouth' (Bṛh. 1.3.7²); "and on account of the difference" of
the sense-organs, the apprehenders of sense-objects, from the best
vital-breath, the cause of the subsistence of the body, the sense-organs
and the rest,—they are separate entities.
¹ Prāṇa. ² Ś, Bh.