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416 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 2. 3. 23-24. ADH. 9.] 3.1.9). The measure is mentioned in the text: ‘An individual soul is a part of the hundredth part of the tip of a hair, divided a hundred- fold’ (Śvet. 5.9) ‘For the lower one is seen to be like the point of the spoke of a wheel only’ (Śvet. 5.8). SŪTRA 23 “NON-CONTRADICTION, AS IN THE CASE OF THE SANDAL-PASTE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Just as a drop of sandal-paste, though occupying one spot of the body, refreshes the entire body, so exactly does the soul illuminate. Hence, the experience of pleasure and the like over the whole body is not inconsistent. Vedānta-kaustubha If it be objected: If the soul be atomic in size, then how can pleasure and the like be experienced over the whole body?—we reply: There is no such contradiction. Just as one drop of yellow sandal- paste, occupying one spot of the body, produces, through its own quality, a pleasurable sensation extending over the entire body, so the soul too, occupying one spot of the body, experiences, through its own quality, the pleasure and the like extending over the entire body, in accordance with the Smṛti passage: ‘This soul, though only atomic, abides pervading its own body, as does a drop of yellow sandal-paste, pervading the body’. For this very reason it has been said by the Lord too: ‘“Just as one sun illuminates this entire world, so the field-owner (i.e. the soul) illuminates the entire field (i.e. the body), O Bhārata!”’ (Gītā 13.33). SŪTRA 24 “IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT (THE TWO CASES ARE NOT PARALLEL) ON ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIALITY OF ABODE, (WE REPLY:) NO, ON ACCOUNT OF THE ADMISSION (OF AN ABODE, VIZ.) IN THE HEART CERTAINLY.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected: The example of the sandal-paste is not appropriate, “on account of the speciality of abode”,—it is directly