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FIRST CHAPTER (Adhyāya) SECOND QUARTER (Pāda) Adhikarana 1: The section entitled ‘Celebrity everywhere’. (Sūtras 1-8) SŪTRA 1 “(THAT WHICH CONSISTS OF MIND IS BRAHMAN), BECAUSE OF THE TEACHING OF WHAT IS CELEBRATED EVERYWHERE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Beginning ‘All this, verily, is Brahman, emanating from him disappearing into him and breathing in him,—tranquil, let one medi- tate on him thus’ (Chānd. 3.14.1 ¹), Scripture continues: ‘Consisting of mind, having the vital breath for his body’ (Chānd 3.14.2 ²). Here, the object which is to be meditated on as consisting of mind is to be understood as the Highest self, the cause of all, and not as the individual soul. Why? Because the highest self alone, celebrated in all the Vedāntas, is taught in the above passages, viz. ‘All this, verily, is Brahman’ (Chānd. 3.14.1) Vedānta-kaustubha Thus, in the first section, the concordance of the scriptural texts with regard to the holy Lord Vāsudeva has been shown,—He who is the object of enquiry, the greatest Being, the cause of the origin and ‘the rest of the world, having Scripture for His sole proof, omniscient, without an equal or a superior and the one mass of infinite auspicious qualities. Now, in the following two sections, the reverend teacher of the Veda is showing that those texts,—some of which indistinctly indicate the individual soul and the rest, and some of which distinctly do so,—all refer to Him alone. The Chāndogas record the following ‘All this, verily, is Brahman, emanating from him, disappearing into him, and breathing in him,— tranquil, let one meditate (on him) thus. Now, a person consists of ¹ Ś, R, Bh, B.      ² Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B.