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

876 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 4. 4. 17.
ADH. 6.]
manifest. Finally, the following texts declare that the soul is omni-
scient during its state of release: “Verily, with this celestial eye, the
mind, he sees desires, and enjoys in this world of Brahman” (Chānd.
8.12.5), “Verily, the seer sees everything, attains everything every-
where” (Chānd. 7.26.2). Hence it is perfectly reasonable to hold
that the freed soul possesses the instruments, such as the body and the
rest, created by the Lord; may have, according to will, a body or
not or many bodies; and is omniscient.
Here ends the section entitled “Absence” (5).
COMPARISON
Śaṁkara
He interprets the word “sampatti” as ‘final release’. His view
is that the lower knowers who meditate on the qualified Brahman do
not attain kaivalya or absolute isolation as the soul gets during deep
sleep and release, but only a particular condition when the knowledge
of difference still persists.¹
Adhikaraṇa 6: The section entitled “Exclusive
of the activities in connection with the Uni-
verse”. (Sūtras 17—22).
SŪTRA 17
“EXCLUSIVE OF THE ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNI-
VERSE, ON ACCOUNT OF THE SUBJECT-MATTER, AND ON ACCOUNT
OF NON-PROXIMITY.”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The lordship of the freed soul consists in something other than
the activities in connection with the creation and the rest of the
¹ Ś.B. 4.4.16, p. 976.
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