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302 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 2. 1. 23. ADH. 8.] Baladeva This is sūtra 23 in his commentary. "(Since the individual soul, though sentient, is dependent) like (non-sentient objects like) stones and the rest, there is the impossibility of that (viz. of the individual souls being the creator of the world)." 1 Adhikarana 8: The section entitled "The Obser- vation of Collection". (Sūtras 23-24) SŪTRA 23 "IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT ON ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATION OF COLLECTION, (BRAHMAN IS) NOT (THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD), (WE REPLY:) NO, FOR (HE TRANSFORMS HIMSELF) LIKE MILK." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected that "on account of the observation of the col- lection" of many implements by potters and others, Brahman, who is without any external implement, is not the cause of the world— (we reply:) "no", since Brahman transforms Himself "like milk", possessing, as He does, powers peculiar to Him alone. Vedānta-kaustubha The objection, viz. if the universal Lord, possessing the sentient and the non-sentient as His powers, the soul of all, and without an equal or a superior, be the creator of the world, there arises the faults like not doing what is beneficial and the rest, has been refuted above on the ground that the individual soul, though non-different from Brahman as having Him as its soul, is yet subject to transmigratory existence as subject to beginningless karmas, and thus different from Him by nature. Now, the author is disposing of the following objec- tion, viz. that Brahman is not the creator of the world on account of the absence of the collection of external implements. The words "and the rest" are to be supplied from the last aphorism. The word "for" denotes the reason. 1 G.B. 2.1.23, p. 56, Chap. 2.