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[SŪ. 1. 4. 21. 254 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 6.] case of the pot and the clay, standing in the relation of effect and cause, the word 'pot' refers to the clay as well. This being so, the initial proposition too, viz. that through the knowledge of one, there is the knowledge of all, is established,—such is the view of Āśmarathya. The meaning of the words of the aphorism is as follows. This, really, is "a mark" or a convincing proof "of the establishment of the initial proposition", viz. that through the knowledge of one, there is the knowledge of all. What mark? Listen ¹ The individual soul being non-different from the Supreme Soul as His effect, by the word "individual soul" the Supreme Soul is designated,—so the teacher Āśmarathya thinks SŪTRA 21 "ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH A CONDITION OF ONE WHO IS ABOUT TO DEPART, AUḌULOMI (THINKS SO)" Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha On account of the union of the individual soul, about to depart from the body, with Brahman, Brahman is denoted by a word denoting the individual soul,—so Auḍulomi thinks. Vedānta-kaustubha "On account of such a condition," i e. on account of the union of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul,—of the soul which "is about to depart" from the aggregation of the body and the sense- organs, in accordance with the text: 'As the flowing rivers disappear into the sea, leaving names and forms, so a knower, freed from name and form, attains the celestial Person, higher than the high' (Chānd. 8.3.4), which is endowed with the hearing, the thinking, the meditation and the direct vision of Brahman; and which is well-known to be unborn from the scriptural and Smṛti texts like. 'A wise man is neither born, nor dies' (Kaṭha 2.18), 'This is unborn, eternal, constant' (Gītā 2.20), i.e. on account of its attaining the state of Brahman, the Supreme Soul is denoted by a term denoting the individual soul,—so thinks the teacher Auḍulomi. On this view, there is a difference between the individual soul and Brahman during the soul's state of bondage, and non-difference during its state of