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[sū. 1. 3. 15. ADH. 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 165 heart’ (Chānd. 8.1.3) the small ether, i.e. the Supreme Being alone, is compared to the well-known ether, since when two different things can be reasonably held to be the object with which the thing is com- pared and the object compared, it is unreasonable to suppose one and the same thing to be both (viz. upamāna and upameya). ‘Being the supporter of all effects’ too, mentioned in the passage: ‘In it both the heaven and the earth are contained’ (Chānd. 8.1.3), fits in on the part of the Highest Self alone. The attributes like ‘being the soul’, ‘being free from sins’ and the rest, mentioned in the passage: ‘This soul is free from sins, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, without hunger, without thirst, possessed of true desires, possessed of true resolves’ (Chānd. 8.1.5), fit in only if the Highest Self be understood. Moreover, after having designated the non-permanency of the fruits of works and their incapacity of knowing Him in the passage ‘As here the world won by work perishes, so hereafter the world won by merit perishes’ (Chānd. 8.1.6), Scripture concludes: ‘Now, those who depart, having known the soul here and those true desires, come to have free movement in all the worlds’ (Chānd. 8.1.6). That is, those worshippers who ‘depart’ to the other world, ‘having known’, i.e. having realized ‘the soul’, i.e. the Supreme Lord called ‘the small’, and ‘those’, i.e. His qualities, come to have free movement in all the worlds. Accordingly, the small ether is the Highest Self, since then alone free movement is explicable on the part of those who know the nature and qualities of the ‘small one’. SŪTRA 15 “ON ACCOUNT OF GOING AND OF WORD, FOR THUS IT IS SEEN, THERE IS A MARK AS WELL.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The “going” is mentioned in the text: ‘All beings are going day by day’ (Chānd. 8.3.2 ¹), and the “word” is ‘The world of Brahman’ (Chānd. 8.3.2 ²),—on account of these two, the ‘small one’ is ascer- tained to be the Supreme Being. The daily going is “seen thus” in another scriptural text too, viz.: ‘“Then, my dear, he comes to be

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¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ² Op. cit.