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[SŪ. 1. 4. 7. ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 225 by the individual soul,—since the Person worshipped and the wor- shipper have entered into the same cave (Kaṭha 3.1 ¹),—and the mode of worship, as well as the attainment of the place of Viṣṇu by the worshipper, in the passage which begins: '"Know the soul to be a lord of chariot"' (Kaṭha 3.3), and ends. '"This the wise declare"' (Kaṭha 3 14), he concluded with the words: '"Invisible"' (Kaṭha 3.15) and so on. Hence, this Upaniṣad contains a statement about the three alone as the objects to be known, as well as a question about them; there is no reference to pradhāna, established by the Tantra, (viz the Sāṁkhyas). SŪTRA 7 "AND AS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT" Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Just as, although the word 'great' (mahat) has been applied by the Sāṁkhyas to the second principle called 'buddhi', yet it is found applied elsewhere as well in Vedic texts like, 'I know this great Person' (Vj S. 18 12 ²; Śvet. 3.8),—so the word 'unmanifest' (avyakta) may refer to the body. Vedānta-kaustubha Just as the word 'great', mentioned in the Veda, is applied to the individual soul and to Brahman,—as in the passages. 'Higher than intellect is the great soul' (Kaṭha 3.10), 'The soul which is great and all-pervading' (Kaṭha 2.22, 4.4) and so on,—and not to the second principle, called buddhi, admitted by the Sāṁkhyas, and cannot be applied elsewhere even by a hundred Sāṁkhyas, so it is established that the word 'unmanifest' as well, being mentioned in the Veda, does not apply to pradhāna, but denotes the body. Here ends the section entitled 'What is derived from inference' (1). ¹ Vide Br. Sū. 1.2.11-12. ² P 857, line 10. Ś, Bh. 15