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[sū. 2. 3. 45. ADH. 12 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 439 Vedānta-kaustubha It has been declared in a Smṛti passage by the Highest Person Himself that the individual soul is a part of Brahman, thus: “ ‘A part of my own self, in the world of men, has become the individual soul, the eternal’ ’ (Gītā 15.7). COMPARISON Rāmānuja He omits the “ca”.¹ ――――― SŪTRA 45 “BUT LIKE LIGHT AND THE REST, NOT SO THE HIGHEST.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Though the individual soul is a part of the Supreme Person, yet the whole (i.e. the Lord) does not experience pleasure and pain, just as “light and the rest” are devoid of the virtue or vice inhering in their parts. Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection, viz. then the virtue or vice pertaining to the individual soul may belong to the Supreme Soul too, seeing that a part has no separate existence from the whole,—the author replies here. “The Highest,” i.e. the Supreme Soul, does “not” become “so”, i.e. does not come to share the virtue and vice pertaining to the individual soul. The author states a parallel instance: “Like light and the rest”, i.e. just as “light”, i e. the sun and the rest, are not touched by the attributes of their rays which are their parts, i.e by their contact and the rest with pure and impure objects. By the phrase: “and the rest”, the ether and the like are understood; i.e. just as the ether and the like are not touched by the good qualities found in the sound of conch-shell, cuckoos and so on, nor by the bad qualities found in the sound of crows and the like. The term “but” is suggestive of the absence of an intermixture of the attributes of the part and the whole. The objections, resulting from the apprehension ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― ¹ Śrī. B. 2.3.44, p. 161, Part 2.