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282 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ 2. 1. 10. ADH. 3.] defile Brahman, possessing the sentient and the non-sentient as His powers. CORRECT CONCLUSION (end) SŪTRA 10 "AND ON ACOUNT OF OBJECTION TO HIS OWN VIEW." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The Sāṁkhya, maintaining a doctrine opposed to the Veda, cannot raise any objection, since the stated objections apply to his own view as well. Vedānta-kaustubha The author points out that the Sāṁkhya cannot even object that there is any inconsistency in our view which is based on the Veda. There is no inconsistency in our view based as it is on Scripture. It has been alleged by the Sāṁkhya, unacquainted as he is with the settled conclusion of the Vedānta, firstly, that a cause-effect relation between Brahman and the world is inappropriate, as there is a difference between the cause and the effect in this case, secondly, that, in our view, the effect becomes non-existent prior to creation, and thirdly, that Brahman becomes like the world during the time of dissolution. All these objections are of equal force against the Sāṁkhya doctrine as well. The sense is. The origin of the effect,— which possesses colour and the rest and possesses parts,—from pra- dhāna, which is colourless and devoid of parts, is admitted. Hence, a cause-effect relation between pradhāna and its effects is inappro- priate, there being here a difference between the cause and the effect. There being nothing gross prior to creation, the effect itself becomes non-existent; and during dissolution, prakṛti, like the world, becomes gross. COMPARISON All others, except Baladeva, read. "sapakṣa-doṣāc ca" ¹ ¹ Ś B 2.1.10, p. 357; Śrī. B 2.1.10, p. 13, Part 2; Bh. B. 2.1.10, p. 91; ŚK. B. 2.1 10, p. 14, Parts 7 and 8.