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[sū. 2. 3. 22. adh. 9.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 415 (we reply:) “no”, because in the middle, the topic is the Supreme Soul. Vedānta-kaustubha If it be objected: The individual soul is “not atomic”. Why? “Because of the scriptural mention of what is not that,”—“that” means atomicity, “what is not that” means non-atomicity, on account of the scriptural mention of that,¹—i.e. because in connection with the discourse on the individual soul, viz. ‘He who is made of knowledge among the vital-breaths, who is the light within the soul’ (Bṛh. 4.3.7), there is the mention of greatness in the scriptural text: ‘He, verily, is the great, unborn soul’ (Bṛh. 4.4 25),— (We reply:) “No”. Why? “On account of the topic being something else,” i.e. because the topic is here something other than the individual soul referred to in the beginning, i e the Supreme Soul, who is the topic to be established in the middle of the section, in the text: ‘By whom the soul has been found and realized’ (Bṛh. 4 4.13) SŪTRA 22 “AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE WORD ITSELF AND OF MEASURE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “On account of the word itself (viz. ‘atomic’) and of measure,” mentioned (respectively) in the texts: ‘This atomic soul’ (Muṇḍ. 3 1.9²), ‘An individual soul is a part of the hundredth part of the tip of a hair, divided a hundredfold’ (Śvet. 5.9³), the individual soul is atomic. Vedānta-kaustubha The phrase: “the word itself” means the word which is denotative of its own atomicity. The word “measure” means the measure which is separated from⁴ all gross measures, i.e. an intensely minute measure. On account of these two, the individual soul is atomic. The word itself is mentioned in the text: ‘This atomic soul in which the five-fold vital-breath has entered is to be known by means of thought’ (Muṇḍ. ¹ This explains the compound “atacchruteḥ”. ² Ś, R, B, Śk, B. ³ Ś, R, Bh, B. ⁴ Uddhṛtya mānam = Unmānam.