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[SŪ. 1. 2. 19. ADH 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 121 presiding deity is declared to abide in the eye through the rays, (and hence does not himself abide within the eyes ¹); and finally, because immortality, fearlessness, ‘being the uniter of lovely things’ and the rest are not possible on the part of any one other than Him. Hence, it is established that the Highest Soul alone is to be worshipped as the person within the eye. Here ends the section entitled ‘That which is within’ (4). COMPARISON Śrīkaṇṭha Interpretation different, viz he takes this sūtra as forming an adhikaraṇa by itself, concerned with the question whether the Person, of the size of a thumb merely, (Mahānār. 16 3) is the Lord or someone else. Thus: ‘(The person, of the size of a thumb, is the Lord), because of the instability (i.e. unsuitableness), as well as because of the impossibility (of the attributes of “having the entire world as the body”, “being the devourer of the entire world”, and so on, on the part of any one else)’.² Adhikaraṇa 5. The section entitled ‘The inner controller’. (Sūtras 19–21) SŪTRA 19 “THE INNER CONTROLLER IN THE PRESIDING DEITIES AND THE REST, AND IN THE WORLDS AND THE REST (IS THE HIGHEST SELF), ON ACCOUNT OF THE DESIGNATION OF HIS QUALITIES.” ³ Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The inner controller,—mentioned repeatedly in all the versions in reference to the presiding deities of the earth and the rest, in the passage which begins ‘He who, abiding within the earth’, and

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¹ Vide Śrī. B. 1.1.18, p. 354, Part 1. ² ŚK B. 1.1.18, pp. 364–66, Part 4. ³ Cf. the different readings:—K.S.S. ed. and Brindaban ed. read ‘adhi- devādi’. C S.S ed. reads ‘adhidaivādhi’