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[sū. 1. 4. 27. ADH. 7.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 263 soul of beings swallows up again the created beings' (Mahā. 12. 7072b–7073a¹). COMPARISON Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha They break the sūtra into two different sūtras, viz. 'Ātmakṛteḥ' and 'Pariṇāmāt' ² SŪTRA 27 "AND BECAUSE (BRAHMAN) IS CELEBRATED TO BE THE SOURCE." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha And in the texts 'The source of beings which the wise see' (Muṇḍ. 1.1.6 ³), 'The creator, the Lord, the person, the source of Brahmā' (Muṇḍ 3.1.3 ⁴), Brahman "is celebrated" by the word "source". Hence, Brahman alone is the material cause. Vedānta-kaustubha "Because" in the texts: 'The source of beings which the wise see' (Muṇḍ. 1.1 6), 'The creator, the Lord, the person, the source of Brahmā' (Muṇḍ. 3.1 3), 'This is the source of all' (Māṇḍ. 6), Brahman "is celebrated" by the word "source", denoting the material cause,—the material cause is none but Brahman,—this is the sense. Hence, the doctrine of the Sāṁkhyas is not to be accepted, being opposed as it is to the Veda. It is established that Lord Kṛṣṇa alone, the sole topic of all the Vedas, different and non-different from the universe, the Highest Person, the Lord, and the Lord of all, is to be meditated on by one desirous of salvation as the non-different material and efficient cause of the universe. Here ends the section entitled 'The material cause' (7). 1 P 615, lines 24-25, vol. 3. Reading: 'Harate' instead of 'grasate'. Vaṅgavāsī ed. too reads 'harate', p. 1571. 2 Śrī. B. p. 404, Part 1 ; Śk. B., pp. 564-65, Part 6. 3 Ś, R, Bh, B. 4 Op. cit.