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[SŪ. 2. 2. 5. ADH 1.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 331 pradhāna does not depend on an accessory. It cannot be said also that the variegated works are the instigator of pradhāna,—because works will then become the cause of the world, because the inde- pendence of pradhāna in creating the world will be set aside, and, finally, because this is impossible. Works, on the other hand, are not able to give even fruits like merit or demerit, pleasure or pain; their agent, too, does not obtain the fruit by himself. Hence, how can those works, performed by the individual souls who are vitiated by their contact with prakṛti or matter, be able to instigate pradhāna? The fact is that the works bear fruits through the wish of the Lord, and thus their agent obtains fruits, as declared by the Lord Himself: '"Pleasure, pain, existence, non-existence, fear and absence of fear, non-violence, equanimity, contentment, penance, charity, fame and absence of fame,—the various states of beings arise from me alone"' (Gītā 10. 4a-5b). It is not to be said that pradhāna acts through its proximity to puruṣa,—for its proximity to puruṣa being eternal, its activity, too, must be eternal. This will be made clear in details under the aphorism: "As in the case of a man and stone" (Br. Sū. 2.2.7) COMPARISON Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha This is sūtra 3 in their commentaries. Their explanation is similar to the first explanation given by Śrīnivāsa, viz.: "Because of the non-existence of what is different (from creation, viz. dis- solution), on account of (its) non-dependence (to anything else), (pradhāna is not the cause of the world)".¹ SŪTRA 5 "AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE NON-EXISTENCE ELSEWHERE, NOT LIKE GRASS AND THE REST." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Since there is no transformation of the grass and the rest, eaten by an ox, into the form of milk, it cannot be said that just as the grass ¹ Śrī. B. 2.2.3, p. 74, Part 2; ŚK. B. 2.2.3, pp. 57-58, Parts 7 and 8