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[SŪ. 1. 2. 16. ADH. 4.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 115 introductory text · 'The vital-breath, is Brahman, pleasure is Brahman, the ether is Brahman' (Chānd. 4 10.4), pleasure that is Brahman, i.e Brahman characterized by pleasure, is mentioned, and that alone is referred to here SŪTRA 16 “ALSO FOR THAT VERY REASON, THAT IS BRAHMAN.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “That”, i.e. pleasure, is “Brahman”, i.e. Brahman alone is charac- terized by pleasure. Why? On account also of the text, establishing their mutual specification ¹, viz. ‘What, verily, is pleasure, that is the ether ; what is the ether, that is pleasure’ (Chānd 4.10.5 ²) Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection, viz The word ‘pleasure’ conventionally denotes wordly pleasure, so how can it be said that Brahman is characterized by pleasure?—the reverend teacher of the Veda replies here: “That is Brahman.” This means that in that introductory text, Brahman alone, characterized by pleasure, is mentioned and not worldly pleasure. Why? “Also for that very reason,” i e. on account also of the text intimating their mutual specification, viz. ‘What, verily, is pleasure that is the ether; what is the ether, that is pleasure’ (Chānd 4 10.5), for worldly pleasure cannot consistently refer to an all-pervading substance—denoted by the term ‘ether’—as non-different from itself. COMPARISON Śaṃkara, etc. This Sūtra is omitted by Śaṃkara, Bhāskara and Baladeva. Rāmānuja Reading different, viz. ‘Ata-eva ca sa Brahma’. Interpretation too different, viz. ‘For that very reason (i.e because the ether is characterized by pleasure), that (viz. the ether) is Brahman’.³ ¹ I e ka (pleasure) qualifies kha (ether) and vice versa. ² R, ŚK. ³ Śrī B 1 2.6, pp 252-253, Part 1.