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[SŪ. 3. 2. 36.
568 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 7 ]
Vedānta-kaustubha
It has been said that on account of the designation of difference,
viz. “By him, by the Person, all this is filled. That which is beyond
that is without form, without disease” (Śvet. 3 9-3.10), there is
something ‘higher than this’. To this the author replies.
On account of the stated reasons Brahman is without an
equal and a superior; “likewise on account of the denial of another”,
i.e. of an equal or a superior, as well, it is established that He has no
equal or a superior; In accordance with the scriptural text: “Than
whom there is nothing else whatsoever higher” (Śvet 3 9; Mahānār.
10.4) and so on,—the word ‘higher’ meaning something better, the
word ‘something else’ meaning something equal ¹,—as well as in
accordance with the Smṛti passage: ‘“There is nothing else higher
than me, O Dhanañjaya !”’ (Gītā 7 7) and so on, the section is
concerned with the supremacy of the Person, the topic of discussion ;
and hence by the text. “That which is beyond that” (Śvet. 3.10)
another reality is not established. On the contrary, in accordance
with the text: “Than whom there is nothing else whatsoever higher,
than whom there is nothing else smaller, nothing else greater,—the
One stands motionless like a tree in heaven, by him, the Person, all
this is filled” (Śvet. 3.9; Mahānār. 10 4), Brahman, the Highest
Person, is without an equal and a superior, and all-pervading; and for
this reason, Brahman, called ‘Person’, is said to be beyond that.
COMPARISON
Śaṁkara and Bhāskara
They understand this sūtra to mean that in Scripture there is the
denial of anything else besides Brahman, and hence Brahman is the
sole reality.²
Śrīkaṇṭha
This is sūtra 35 in his commentary.
He begins a new adhikaraṇa here (two sūtras), concerned with
the question whether there is anything equal to the Lord, the doubt
that there may be something superior to Him being disposed of in
the previous adhikaraṇa. Hence the sūtra “Likewise (i.e. just as

¹ The text is: “Yasmāt paraṁ nāparam asti kiñcit”.
² Ś.B. 3.2.36, pp 748-749, Bh. B. 3.2.36, p. 172.