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[SŪ. 2. 3. 46. ADH. 12.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 441 as the soul)”. That is, the soul is a part of Brahman in the sense of being an attribute (viśeṣaṇa) of Brahman; and just as the attribute and its substratum are not identical, so the soul and Brahman are not ¹ They continue the same topic in the following two sūtras. Baladeva This is sūtra 44 in his commentary. Interpretation absolutely different He begins a new adhikarana here (five sūtras) concerned with the question of the Lord’s incarnations. Thus, this sūtra means, according to him: “But supreme (incarnations of the Lord are) not so; (i.e parts of the Lord as the individual souls are), as in the case of light”. That is, just as though the sun and the fire-fly are both called ‘light’, yet the word has a different meaning when applied to the sun, so though the incarnations and ordinary individual souls are both called ‘parts’ of the Lord, yet the word has a different meaning when applied to the incarnations, i.e. it means then the entire Lord.² SŪTRA 46 “AND SMṚTIS DECLARE” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “And Smṛtis declare”: ‘Of these, He who is the Supreme Soul is declared to be eternal and free from the properties of matter, and He is not touched by the fruits too, just as a lotus-leaf is not touched by water.³ The active self, on the other hand, is something different, who is subject to bondage and release’ (Mahā. 12.13754-13755 ⁴). Vedānta-kaustubha The sages also declare that the part alone is subject to the fruits of action done by itself, but not the whole, thus: ‘Of these, He who is the Supreme Soul is declared to be eternal and free from the properties of matter, and He is not touched by the fruits too, just as a lotus- leaf is not touched by water.—The active self, on the other hand, 1 Śrī. B. 2.3.45, pp. 161-62, Part 2; Śk B. 2.3.45, pp. 161-62, Parts 7 and 8. 2 G.B. 2.3.44, pp. 223-24, Chap. 2. 3 One line omitted. 4 P. 852, lines 9-10, vol. 3.