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[sū. 2. 2. 2. 328 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 1.] establishes the non-validity of the object established (by the Sāṁkhya, viz. pradhāna):— Pradhāna as admitted by the Sāṁkhyas and not having Brah- man for its soul, is non-existent; because it is not perceived. Whatever is this (i.e. not perceived) is that (i.e. non-existent); like the sky-flower Whatever is not this (i.e. not non-perceived) is not that (i.e. not non-existent); like the sun. COMPARISON Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha They take this and the next sūtra as one sūtra. SŪTRA 2 “AND ON ACCOUNT OF ACTIVITY ” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha And on account of the impossibility of spontaneous activity (on its part), not the inference (i.e. the inferrible pradhāna). Vedānta-kaustubha The phrase beginning with ‘on account of impossibility’ is to be supplied here. And because activity,—viz. spontaneous falling away from the state of the equilibrium of the three guṇas,—is impossible on the part of pradhāna which is non-sentient and an object of inference. Thus, pradhāna, knowable through inference, is not the cause of the world, since it is observed in ordinary life that non-sentient objects like chariots and the rest, are moved to action only when superintended by conscious beings.