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[SŪ. 1. 2. 19 122 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 5.] continues 'He is your soul, the inner controller' (Bṛh 3.7 3¹),— is the Highest Self alone Why ? “On account of the designation of His qualities” here, viz. 'being the controller of all' and so on. Vedānta-kaustubha Now, the author points out that just as the text about the Person within the eye refers to Brahman, so the text about the inner controller, too, refers to Brahman, and to none else The inner controller, i.e. the controller who abides within, who is repeatedly mentioned in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, under the section treating of the inner controller, in all the versions in reference to the presiding deities of the earth, the sky, the ether and the rest, in the passage which beginning : 'Who controls from within this world and the other world and all beings' (Bṛh. 3 7.1), continues : 'He who, dwelling within the earth, is other than the earth, whom the earth does not know, of whom the earth is the body, who controls the earth within—He is your soul, the inner controller, immortal ²' (Bṛh. 3.7.3), and so on, and who is taught, after that,—in the text which begins 'He who abiding in all the worlds' (Śat. Br. 14.6.7.17 ³) and ends 'He who abiding within the soul' (Śat. Br. 14.6.7.30 ⁴),—by a section, which enjoins him with in reference to the worlds, the Vedas, the sacrifices and the soul ⁵,—is such an inner controller, a deity, or an individual soul, or the Highest Self, the one topic of all the Vedas ? What is reasonable here ? He may be a presiding deity, or an indivi- dual soul, because these two abide everywhere. With regard to this, we reply: The inner controller mentioned in all the versions in reference to the presiding deities of the earth, fire, sky, ether, air, sun and the rest, can be the Highest Self alone. ¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ² This is repeated at the end of each verse from Bṛh 3 7.3–3.7.23. ³ P 1074, line 5 ⁴ Op. cit., line 18. ⁵ The Kāṇva branch designates a being abiding within the earth and the rest (vide Bṛh. 3.7 3–23). The Mādhyandina branch, after designating a being abiding within the earth and so on (vide Śat. Br. 14 6.7.7-16), reads three additional texts, viz 'He who dwells in all the worlds', 'He who dwells in all the Vedas' and 'He who dwells in all the sacrifices,' and in place of 'He who dwells in intelligence' (Bṛh. 3.7 22) a text 'He who dwells in the soul' (Vide Śat Br 14.6 7.17–30). Note that Nimbārka makes no reference to this Mādhyandina addition in his commentary, although it is clearly indicated in the sūtra by the word 'lokādiṣu'.