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218 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 1. 4. 3. ADH. 1.] We reply. The word "but" implies emphasis The body is the gross effect, pradhāna is the subtle cause, and that alone is to be understood; so the term "unmanifest" may very well refer to it. Why? "Because of its fitness", i.e. because of the fitness of the subtle pradhāna to assume the form of the effect, or because of the fitness of the effect to assume the form of the cause. Just as in the text: 'All this verily, is Brahman, emanating from Him, disappearing into Him and breathing in Him' (Chānd. 3.14.1), the universe, though different from Brahman as His effect, having been emanated from Him, is yet declared to be non-different from Him, so is this body, which is non- different from pradhāna. Or else, (an alternative explanation;) because of the fitness of that word "unmanifest", denoting the cause, to denote the effect too ¹, as in the example: 'Mix the soma with cows' (Ṛg. V. 9.46.4 ²). COMPARISON Rāmānuja Interpretation of 'tad arhatvāt' different, viz. because the unmanifest matter alone, when it has assumed the form of the effect (viz. body), is fit to undertake activities, promoting the end of men, like a chariot ³ SŪTRA 3 "(PRADHĀNA) HAS A MEANING ON ACCOUNT OF (ITS) DEPENDENCE ON HIM." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Pradhāna, taught in the Upaniṣads, "has a meaning on account of its dependence" on the Supreme Cause; while that admitted by others is meaningless, such is the distinction (between our pradhāna and that of others, viz. of the Sāṁkhyas). ¹ The argument is that the cause and the effect being non-different, a term denoting the one, can very well denote the other. Hence the term 'unmanifest', denoting pradhāna, the cause, can denote the body, its effect as well. ² P. 203, line 16. That is, the Soma is to be mixed, not with the cow, the cause, but with the milk, its effect Here a word, denoting the cause, really stands for the effect. ³ Śrī. B 1.4.2, p. 357, Chap. 1.