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[SŪ. 2. 2. 34. ADH. 6.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 373 Supreme Cause (tajja), disappears in Him (talla) and breathes, i.e. acts in Him (tadana) The elision of the parts is in accordance with Vedic use. Moreover, a single cause of the world being established by correct evidence, the causality of a plurality of atoms does not stand to reason, because that would involve unnecessary cumbrousness and also because causality is impossible on their parts, owing to their non-sentience. Further, the one reality, knowable from the Veda, being the giver of salvation, it is difficult for salvation to result from the grace of the perfect souls,¹ that being impossible Does the grace of the perfect souls depend on meditation or not ? If the first, then, salvation cannot arise through the meditation on one perfect soul among many perfect souls of the same nature, for there will be the fault of dis- regarding many other equally perfect souls. If there be meditation on all, that would involve unnecessary complication. If it be said that there is one great (soul higher than the others), then you fall in with a theistic view. On the second alternative, the consequence would be a universal release Moreover, there being no evidence of direct perception and the rest for the existence of perfect souls, it is impossible that salvation can result from their grace. SŪTRA 34 "AND THUS (IF) THE SOUL (BE OF THE SIZE OF THE BODY) THERE IS NON-ENTIRETY.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha "Thus", there must be incompleteness on the part of the soul, assumed to be of the size of the body, when it attains a large body Vedānta-kaustubha Just as their view is open to the objection that contradictory attributes are impossible on the part of one and the same substratum, so their view that the soul is of the size of the body, too, is open to 1 Siddhas or semi-divine beings, supposed to be of great purity and holiness and characterized by the eight supernatural attributes.