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[sū. 1. 1. 32. ADH. 11.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 87 SŪTRA 32 “IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT ON ACCOUNT OF THE CHARACTERISTIC MARKS OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL AND THE CHIEF VITAL-BREATH, (BRAHMAN IS) NOT (MEANT), (WE REPLY.) NO, ON ACCOUNT OF THE THREEFOLDNESS OF MEDITATION, ON ACCOUNT OF BEING REFERRED TO (ELSEWHERE), ON ACCOUNT OF (ITS) SUITABILITY HERE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected. On account of the characteristic marks of the individual soul, mentioned in the passages:—‘Let none desire to enquire into speech, but let him desire to know the speaker’ (Kaus. 3 8¹), ‘I slew the three-headed son of Tvaṣṭṛ’ (Kaus 3 1²); as well as on account of the characteristic marks of the chief vital-breath, mentioned in the passage—‘The vital-breath alone is the intelligent self that taking hold of the body makes it stand up’ (Kaus 3 3³), Brahman is not referred to here,— (We reply.) No, “because of the threefoldness of the meditation” on Brahman, in accordance with the different grades of meditating devotees, viz. (meditation on Brahman) as the Inner Controller of the group of individual souls, as the Inner Controller of the non-sentient objects, and as different from them both, “because it is referred to” (elsewhere); “because it is suitable here” also. Here ends the first quarter of the first chapter in the Vedānta- pārijāta-saurabha, an interpretation of the Śārīraka-mīmāṁsā-texts, and composed by the reverend Nimbārka Vedānta-kaustubha If it be objected: Brahman cannot be denoted here by the words ‘vital-breath’ and the rest. Why? “On account of the character- istic marks of the individual soul and the chief vital-breath.” First, the characteristic marks of the individual soul are stated in the passages · ‘Let none desire to enquire after speech, but let him desire to know the speaker’ (Kaus. 3.8), ‘ “I delivered the Arunmukhas, the 1 Ś, R, Bh, B. 2 R, ŚK, Bh, B. 3 Ś, R, Bh, B.