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[sū. 1. 3 7. ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 149 Vedānta-kaustubha It is not that the individual soul constitutes the topic so that it may be understood here. None but the Supreme Soul is the topic here, as evident from the introductory passage. “ ‘What, my reverend Sir, being known, all this comes to be known” ? ’ (Muṇḍ. 1.1.3),—all things do not become known when the individual soul is known, since all things have not the individual soul as their soul— and as established by the fact that in the passage: ‘Now, the higher is that whereby that Imperishable is apprehended’ (Muṇḍ. 1.1.5) and so on, the Supreme Soul alone is referred to. SŪTRA 7 “AND ON ACCOUNT OF ABIDING AND EATING.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “On account of the abiding” of the Highest Self as a non-eater, as well as ‘on account of the eating’ of the individual soul, as laid down in the text: ‘Two birds’ (Muṇḍ. 3.1.1; cf also Śvet. 4.6 1), the individual soul is not the support of the heaven and the earth. Vedānta-kaustubha The author is once more explaining statements regarding the difference between the individual soul and Brahman. The individual soul is not the support of the heaven, the earth and the rest. Why? “On account of abiding and eating”, “sthiti” and “odana” (make) “sthityodane”—on account of that 2. “On account of the abiding” of one bird in the tree, i.e. the body, without eating the fruit of work and shining, and “on account of the eating” of the fruit of work by the other as subject to karmas,—as laid down in the text which refors to the support of the heaven, the earth and the rest, viz. ‘Of these two, one tastes the sweet berry, the other looks on without eating’ (Muṇḍ. 1.1.3),—the difference between the individual soul and Supreme Soul is known. Hence, it is established 1 Ś. R, Bh, ŚK, B 2 This explains the compound ‘sthityodanābhyām’