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[sū. 1. 4. 15. ADH. 4.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 241 an 'object-agent' (i e. the reflexive passive form) Or else, the present indicative should be understood simply in the passive ¹ Hence, everywhere the cause is one and the same indeed The objections with regard to the cause are refuted in this section We shall dispose of the objections with regard to the effects, on the other hand, in the third quarter of the second chapter, under the aphorisms. 'Not the ether, because of being non-scriptural' (Br. Sū. 2 3 1) and the follow- ing Hence, it is established everywhere that the cause of the universe is Brahman alone, a sentient Being and possessed of omniscience and the rest. Here ends the section entitled 'Being the cause' (4) COMPARISON Śaṃkara and Bhāskara The general purport (of the sūtras 14-15) same, but while Nim- bārka connects this adhikaraṇa more directly with the topic of the preceding part of the pāda, viz with the refutation of the Sāṃkhya view ², Śaṃkara and Bhāskara do not do so, but take it to be concerned with the general question of the concordance of all texts with regard to Brahman.³ Śrīkaṇṭha Interpretation different The same topic continued: 'On account of the drawing in'. That is, just as the very same Brahman, mentioned in the prior passage 'He wished' (Tait 2.6) is understood in the subsequent passage too 'The non-existent alone was this in the beginning' (Tait 2.7), because the two passages involve each other, so exactly, the 'five five-people', mentioned in the prior passage (Bṛh. 4.4.17, etc.) are understood as the vital-breath and the rest, 1 I.e. as having reference to a necessarily implied agent, as in the expression: 'The village is being approached'. Vide Ś.B. 1.4.15, p. 417. 2 This is evident from the concluding sentence of his explanation of the sūtra 15. "Na pradhāna-śaṅkā-gandho' pīti bhāvaḥ". V.P.S. 1.4.15, p. 131, K.S.S. 3 This is evident from the beginning of the adhikaraṇa 'Tatra idam aparam āśaṅkate: Na janmā-di-kāraṇatvaṃ Brahmano, Brahma-viṣayaṃ vā gati- sāmānyaṃ vedānta-vākyānāṃ pratipattum śakyam', etc. Vide Ś.B. 1.1.14, pp. 412-13, Bh. B 1.1.14, pp. 76-77. 16