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292 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [sū. 2. 1 16. ADH. 6.] Vedānta-kaustubha For this reason also, says the author, there is non-difference between the effect and the cause between the effect and the cause Whence is it known that there is non-difference between the effect and the cause ? Because the effect is perceived, only when the cause is existent, in accordance with the scriptural text '"These beings, my dear, have the existent as their root"' (Chānd. 6.8 4). COMPARISON Rāmānuja, Śrīkaṇṭha and Baladeva They interpret the sūtra in just the opposite way, viz. "And because of the perception (of the cause) on the existence (of the effect)" That is, the gold, which is the cause, is perceived when the ear-ring is present. That is, the gold alone is perceived in the ear-ring, and not the clay.¹ SŪTRA 16 "AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE POSTERIOR." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha "On account of the existence" of the effect,—belonging to a pos- terior time,—in the cause, owing to the designation of their co-inherence in the text: "Brahman, verily, was this in the beginning" (Bṛh. 1 4.10 ²), there is non-difference between the effect and the cause. Vedānta-kaustubha For this reason too, there is non-difference between the effect and the cause. "On account of the existence" of the effect,—which is "posterior" and denoted by the term 'this',—in the cause, owing to the designation of their co-inherence, in the texts '"The existent alone, my dear, was this in the beginning"' (Chānd. 6.2.1), "Brahman, verily, was this ¹ Śrī B. 2.1.16, p. 46, Part 2; ŚK. B. 2 1 16, p. 22, Parts 7 and 8; G.B 2.1.15, p. 45, Chap. 2. ² Not quoted by others.