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

[SŪ. 3 3. 49. 688 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH 20 ] "Even on account of the resemblance," in point of being mental, of the fires piled up by the mind and the rest to the mental cup,— mentioned in the text: "With this (earth) as the jug, with the sea as the juice, I take the cup, offered to Prajāpati, for you",—they are not to be taken as the subsidiary parts of a sacrifice consisting in action. Why? Because we find from Scripture and the rest ¹ that they are subsidiary parts of a sacrifice consisting in meditation. The sense is that a minor resemblance does not invalidate a major difference. With regard to this, (the author) states a parallel instance: 'As in the case of death". Just as, though fire and the person within the sun resemble each other in point of being denoted by the same word 'death' in the texts "He, verily, is death who is the person within this orb" (Śat. Br. 10.5.2, 3), "The fire, verily, is death" (Bṛh 3 2.10), they are still different from each other; or just as, in accordance with the text: "This world, O Gautama, is the fire" (Chānd 5.4 1), the world does not (actually) become the fire,—so though the fires piled up by the mind and so on and the mental cup resemble each other in point of being mental, they still remain mutually different. COMPARISON Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha Interpretation different. The prima facie objectors say that since the power of the actual fire is transferred to the mental fires (Śat. Br. 10 5.3, 11), the latter must be actual brick-built fires like the former. The answer is: "Not even on account of resemblance (i.e. transference) (an identity) between them results), for (it is) found (that there is transference even when there is no identity), as in the case of death, for (there is) no attaining the world (of death by the person in the sun)". That is, the mere transference of the property of one thing to another is by no means an indication of an actual identity between them, for it is found that sometimes such a transference is based on a single point of similarity. E.g. the person within the orb of the sun is said to be death (Śat. Br. 10.5.2, 3), but there is only one point of resemblance between them, viz. destructive

¹ See above V.K. 3 3.47.