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[SŪ. 4. 4. 15.
874 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 5.]
SŪTRA 15
"THE ENTERING (INTO MANY BODIES IS) AS IN THE CASE OF A
LAMP, FOR (SCRIPTURE) SHOWS THUS."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The soul’s "entering" into many bodies takes place through its
attribute of knowledge, as of the lamp through its ray,—"for" the
scriptural text: "It is capable of infinity" (Śvet. 5.9 ¹) "shows thus".
Vedānta-kaustubha
Apprehending the objection, viz. The manifoldness, mentioned
in the text: "He becomes three-fold" (Chānd. 7.26.2) and so on, is
not possible on the part of the freed soul even though it may have a
body, since it is never possible for one and the same soul, which is
atomic by nature, to pervade many bodies,—the author replies:
"The entering" of the freed soul, atomic in size and abiding
within one body, into many bodies,—i.e. its complete entering into
those bodies as their soul with the thought: 'This is my body and that
as well'—is possible through its attribute of knowledge. "As in the
case of a lamp." That is, just as a lamp, though placed in one place,
pervades many places through its attribute, viz. rays, so is the case
here. "For thus" Scripture shows, viz. "The individual soul is to
be known as a hundredth part of the point of a hair, divided a hundred
times, yet it is capable of infinity" (Śvet. 5.9).
Śaṁkara and Bhāskara
They interpret the sūtra a little differently, viz. Just as one lamp
multiplies itself into many lamps—all lighted from the original lamp,
—so the freed soul multiplies itself into many bodies, since it has the
power of realizing its wishes.²
¹ R.
² Ś.B. 4.4.15, p. 975; Bh. B 4.4.15, p. 247.