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374 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 2. 2. 35-36. ADH. 6.] serious objections. What objection? Listen! When the soul, which is of the size of the body, having left the body of an ant, attains the body of an elephant through the influence of its karmas, then there must be “non-entirety” on its part, i.e. it would not be able to fill up the whole of the elephant’s body. And when the soul comes out of the body of the elephant, and enters into a small body, it would fail to be small like it. SŪTRA 35 “NOR ALSO IS THERE NON-CONTRADICTION ON ACCOUNT OF MODIFICATION, ON ACCOUNT OF CHANGE AND THE REST.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha It cannot be said also that the soul is possessed of parts which are subject to increase and decrease and hence there is no contradiction, —for then there will result the faults of change and the rest (on the part of the soul). Vedānta-kaustubha If it be said: The soul, according to us, is possessed of parts. There is an increment of its parts in the body of an elephant, and decrement in a small body. Thus “on account of modification”, there is no contradiction”,—(we reply·) This cannot be said Why? “On account of change and the rest,” i.e. because there will then result faults like change and the rest. If the soul be possessed of parts, on your view, then it must be mutable like the body and the rest and also non-eternal,—such and other faults would arise. SŪTRA 36 “AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE PERMANENCY OF THE TWO (PRECEDING SIZES OF THE SOUL) OWING TO THE FINAL (SIZE), THERE IS NON- DISTINCTION (OF THE SIZE).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be said: We admit that the “final” size of the soul is constant, and hence the initial and the intervening sizes too must be so,—(we reply:) then, there must be “non-distinction” everywhere, (and