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[sū. 3. 2 22.
adh. 6.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 541
Adhikaraṇa 6: The section entitled "The so-
muchness resulting from what has been pre-
viously declared". (Sūtras 22-30)
SŪTRA 22
"FOR (THE TEXT) DENIES THE SO-MUCHNESS RESULTING FROM
WHAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY DECLARED, AND AFTER THAT SPEAKS
(OF BRAHMAN AS LIMITLESS) ONCE MORE."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
On the doubt, viz whether the text: "Not so, not so" (Bṛh.
2 3 6 ¹) denies the corporeal and the incorporeal forms, mentioned
previously in the passage "There are, verily, two forms of Brahman,
the corporeal and incorporeal" (Bṛh. 2.3.1 ²), or denies simply Brah-
man's so-muchness resulting from His connection with the previously
mentioned forms---the suggestion being that it denies the forms of
Brahman—we reply :
It "denies" only "the so-muchness resulting from what has been
previously mentioned". "After that," "once more" ³ the concluding
portion of the text says: "For there is nothing higher than this—
hence (it is called) 'not so' " (Bṛh. 2 3.6 ⁴)
Vedānta-kaustubha
It has been stated above that Brahman is possessed of a two-fold
characteristic. Now the world is real, the world which consists of the
sentient and the non-sentient, which is not known through any other
means of knowledge, which is knowable from Scripture alone as a
form of Brahman on account of having Brahman for its soul, and which
is not deniable by such texts like: 'This is not a form of Brahman.'
Now, it may be thought that Brahman, who possesses the world as
His form and is endowed with infinite, inconceivable, auspicious
1 Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B.
2 Op. cit. This text occurs in Maitrī 6.3 as well.
3 The word "bhūyaḥ" may mean both 'once more' and 'something
more'. It is not clear in which sense precisely Nimbārka understands it.
Śrīnivāsa gives both the meanings, see V.K. below.
4 Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B.