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FIRST CHAPTER (Adhyāya) THIRD QUARTER (Pāda) Adhikaraṇa 1 The section entitled 'The heaven, the earth, and so on' (Sūtras 1-7) SŪTRA 1 "THE SUPPORT OF THE HEAVEN, THE EARTH AND THE REST (IS BRAHMAN ALONE), ON ACCOUNT OF THE TERM 'OWN' " Vedānta-pārijāta saurabha "The support of the heaven, the earth and the rest", stated in the passage 'In whom the heaven' (Mund. 2.2.5¹) and so on, is Brahman, "on account of the term 'own'", i.e. on account of the word 'soul' and the rest which are denotative of Brahman. Vedānta-kaustubha Now the reverend author of the aphorisms is showing that to be the support of the three worlds, too, is possible on the part of the Lord alone who has the heaven for His head and so on and is the soul of the three worlds. In the Muṇḍaka, we read: 'He in whom the heaven, the earth and the sky are woven, and the mind together with all the vital- breaths,—Him alone know as the one soul; give up other words. He is the bridge to immortality' (Muṇḍ. 2.2.5). Here a doubt arises—viz. whether that which is indicated as the support of the heaven and the rest by the locative 'in whom' is pradhāna or the individual soul, or the Supreme Soul, the cause of the birth and the rest of the world. What is suggested here to begin with? The prima facie view is as follows: Let pradhāna be the support. As it is found that an effect arises from and dissolves into its own cause, it is reasonable to hold that it has its own cause as its support. (This is so), also on account of the scriptural mention of 'bridge'. To be a bridge means to be limited; but Brahman is not limited as declared ¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B.