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[sū. 2. 3. 40. ADH 11.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 433 etc But when he returns home, lays aside his tools and is no longer an agent, he becomes happy In the very same manner the soul suffers so long as it is an agent through nescience, but when it returns home, i e. realizes its real state, frees itself from sense-organs and so on, and ceases to be an agent, it becomes happy ¹ Baladeva This is sūtra 38 in his commentary. He takes it to be an adhikaraṇa by itself. Interpretation different, viz. "And like the carpenter (the soul is active) in two ways". That is, the carpenter is an indirect agent through the medium of its instruments, and also a direct agent in handling those instruments themselves. Similarly, the soul is an indirect agent through its sense-organs, and is also a direct agent in the act of controlling those sense-organs.² Adhikaraṇa 11. The section entitled "Under the control of the Highest". (Sūtras 40-41) SŪTRA 40 "BUT (THE AGENTSHIP OF THE SOUL PROCEEDS) FROM THE HIGHEST, BECAUSE THAT IS TAUGHT BY SCRIPTURE" Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The agentship of that individual soul proceeds "from the Highest" as its cause, in accordance with the scriptural text "Entered within, the ruler of men" (Tait. Ār. 3.11.1, 2 ³). Vedānta-kaustubha Now the problem is being discussed whether the individual soul is an agent as controlled by the Highest Soul, or independently. On the doubt, viz. whether the stated agentship of the individual soul is under its own control or under the control of the Highest Soul, if the prima facie view be: Under its own control alone. In ordinary ¹ Ś.B. 2.3.40, pp 628-29; Bh. B. 2.3.40, p. 139. ² G B. 2.3.38, p. 120, Chap. 2. ³ R., p. 181. 28