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[sū. 2. 1. 13 ADH. 5 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 287 ordinary life, although pots, dishes and the rest, having the lump of clay as their material cause, bracelets, ear-rings and the rest, having gold as their material cause; foams, waves and the rest, having the sea as their material cause; and leaves, fruits and the rest, having the tree as their material cause, are all non-different from their respective causes, there is still a mutual distinction amongst the particular effects themselves In exactly the same manner, there may be a mutual distinction between the enjoyer and the object enjoyed, although they are non-different from Brahman, having Brahman as their material cause Similarly, in spite of their non-distinction, there may still be a distinction between the enjoyer and the controller , just as pots, dishes and the rest, though by nature non-different from the clay, as having no existence and activity apart from the clay, are yet by nature different, too, from the clay possessing as they do their own peculiar attributes which the clay lacks. The same should be known to be the case with the gold and bracelets and the rest too. Likewise, there is a natural relation of difference—non-difference between Brahman and the individual soul. There is, indeed, no inconsistency here. Hence it is established that the doctrine of the causality of Brahman is not open to the above objections.¹ Here ends the section entitled “Becoming the enjoyer” (5). COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara Interpretation different, viz. they interpret the sūtra like Śrīni- vāsa, although while Śrīnivāsa understands the word “bhoktrā- patteḥ” to mean ‘because the enjoyer will become the object enjoyed and vice versa, as well because the enjoyer will become the controller and vice versa’, they understand it to mean only ‘because the enjoyer will become the object enjoyed and vice versa’. Each develops his own peculiar theory in connection.² ¹ Note the different interpretations given by Nimbārka and Śrīnivāsa. ² Ś.B. 2.1.13, pp. 461 et seq.; Bh. B. 2.1.13, p. 92.