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[SŪ. 1. 2 18. 120 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 4.] to be enquired into and the object to be attained. ‘Those who go by it’ ‘do not return’, i e. do not enter any more, through the influence of karmas, into ‘this human whirlpool’, i e. the material world, figuratively implied by the creation of mankind, and subject to re- currence (which is indicated by the term ‘whulpool’), —as declared by the Lord Himself in the passage: ‘“The worlds, beginning from the world of Brahma, come and go, O Arjuna. But, on attaining me, O son of Kuntī, there is no rebirth”’ (Gītā 8 16). The difference of the world of Brahman from the sphere of matter is stated in the Mokṣa-dharma under the dialogue between Jaigiṣa and Vyāsita in the passage which begins: ‘“A man of what nature, of what conduct, of what learning, of what valour does attain the place of Brahman, which is higher than prakṛti, and eternal”?’, and ends ‘“He attains the place of Brahman which is higher than prakṛti, and eternal”’ (Mahā. 12.9968-9969 ¹). SŪTRA 18 “ON ACCOUNT OF NON-ABIDING, AS WELL AS ON ACCOUNT OF IMPOSSIBILITY, NOT THE OTHER.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha That which is within the eye cannot be any one “other” than the Highest Self. Why? Because any one other than Him does not regularly abide therein; and because immortality and the rest are not possible on its part. Vedānta-kaustubha “The other”, i e. the reflected self, or the individual soul, or the presiding deity of the eye, in short, any one other than the Supreme Soul,—is not the Person within the eye. Why? “On account of non-abiding”, i.e. because any one other than the Supreme Soul, does not regularly abide in the eye, since the presence of the reflected soul in the eye depends on the nearness of another person to the eye, (and hence when the person moves away, there is no reflection any longer); since the individual soul is connected with all the sense-organs (and cannot, therefore, abide within the eye only); and since the ¹ P 716, lines 22-23, vol. 3. For full quotation see under V.K. 1 3.13.