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[sū. 1. 2. 21. ADH. 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 125 SŪTRA 21 “AND THE EMBODIED ONE (IS NOT THE INNER CONTROLLER), BECAUSE BOTH ALSO DEPICT IT AS DIFFERENT.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “And” the individual soul is not the inner controller, because “both” the Kaṇvas, ‘as well as’ the Mādhyandinas depict “it” “as different” from the inner controller, respectively in the passages. ‘He who abiding in intelligence’ (Bṛh. 3 7 22 ¹). ‘He who abiding in the soul’ (Śat. Br 14 6.7.30 ²) Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection: Let then the individual soul, and not pradhāna be denoted by the term “inner controller”, since the qualities of being a seer and the rest are appropriate on the soul’s part—the author replies here: The word ‘not’ is to be supplied here from the preceding aphorism. And the “embodied one”, i.e. the soul which has entered into a body, its abode for enjoying the fruits of its own actions, is not denoted by the term “inner controller”, on account of the mention of qualities not belonging to it, viz. ‘being the soul of all’, ‘being the governor of all’, ‘being the seer of all’ and so on; ‘for both’ the Kaṇvas, ‘as well as’ the Mādhyandinas “depict” ‘this’, i.e. the embodied one, “as different” from the inner controller, since the embodied self is an abode like the earth and the rest, and is an object to be governed.³ The Kaṇvas read: ‘He who abiding within intelligence’ (Bṛh. 3.7.22), the Mādhyandinas read: ‘Whom the soul does not know, of whom the soul is the body, who controls the soul from within—He is your soul, the inner controller, immortal’ (Śat. Br. 14.5.7.30). There being the denial of any other seer in the passage: ‘There is no seer other than Him’ (Bṛh. 3.7.23), the seer of everything is the Highest Person alone, the sense being that none other than the Lord is the seer of everything. The individual soul, known from the text: ‘The person alone is a seer, a hearer’, is the seer of only a few things in

¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK. B ² P. 1074, line 18. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK. B ³ I.e. the individual soul is the abode, while the inner controller is one who abides therein, just as He abides within the earth and the rest. Again, the individual soul is the object governed, the inner controller, the governor. Hence the two are different.