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[sū 1. 3. 20. 172 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 5 ] Bhāskara He, too, points out that the statement of Prajāpati does not refer to the individual soul as such, but to the soul which has become the Supreme Soul in nature ¹ SŪTRA 20 “AND THE REFERENCE HAS A DIFFERENT PURPOSE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “The reference” to the individual soul is for showing that the Supreme Soul is the cause of the manifestation of the real nature of the individual soul. Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection, viz : If the small ether be the Supreme Soul having His real nature ever-manifest, then the reference to the indivi- dual soul in the text about the ‘small one’, viz. in the passage: ‘Now, this serene being, having arisen from this body’ (Chānd 8.3.4), must have a purport,—the author replies here. The word “and” (in the sūtra) implies possibility. Just as on attaining the sun, the eye, overpowered so long by darkness, is com- pleted in its real form, so on attaining the highest light, i.e. the small ether, the individual soul, having so long its real nature and qualities like freedom from sins and the rest hidden by the beginningless māyā, is completed in its own special form. Thus, the reference to the individual soul in the statement of Prajāpati is simply for showing that the small ether is the cause of the manifestation of the real form of the individual soul, and not for proving that the small ether is the individual soul itself. COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara Interpretation different, viz. . ‘And the reference (to the individual soul) has a different purpose (viz. the determining of the nature of Brahman)’ ². According to Nimbārka, however, as we have seen, ¹ Bh B. 1 3 19, p 58. ² Ś.B 1.3 20, p. 339; Bh B 1.3.20, p 58