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

596 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [SŪ. 3. 3. 10.
ADH. 3.]
prima facie view is that since they have not been mentioned in those
scriptural texts as belonging to the vital-breath, they are not to be
so included.
With regard to it, we reply "These," i.e. the attributes of being
richest and the best belonging to speech and so on, are to be accepted
as belonging to the vital-breath, "elsewhere" than in the Chāndogya
and the rest, i e in the meditations on the vital-breath of the Kauṣī-
takins as well. Why? "On account of the non-difference of every-
thing," i c because in all the three dialogues the cause of the seniority
and excellence of the vital-breath, the object to be meditated on, is the
very same Just as in the meditations on the vital-breath in the
Chāndogya and the rest, the dependence of speech and the rest and of
the body on the vital-breath, as well as the connection of the vital-
breath with the attributes of being the richest and the rest have been
stated with a view to establishing the seniority and excellence of the
vital-breath,—so in the meditations on the vital-breath in the Kauṣītaki
too, the attributes of speech and the rest, such as being the richest and
so on, have been stated with the same view to establishing the seniority
and excellence of the vital-breath. The text: "Then these divi-
nities said to Father Prajāpati 'Who among us is the best?' He,
Prajāpati, said: 'That one among you, on whose departure the body
appears to be most miserable, is the best'. Then speech went out",¹
and so on, shows that speech and the rest, their attributes, as well as
the body depend on the vital-breath. Here, their own attributes of
being the richest and the rest are not attributed to the vital-breath
by speech and the rest. Hence they are to be ascribed to the
vital-breath,—this is established
Here ends the section entitled "Non-difference of everything" (3).
COMPARISON
Śāṃkara, Bhāskara and Śrīkaṇṭha
The interpretation of the phrase: "Sarvābhedāt" different, viz.
"on account of the non-difference of the prāṇa-vidyā in the three
Upaniṣads". That is, the meditation on the vital-breath is every-
1 Cf the very similar passages in Chānd. 5.1 7–5.1.8.