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VOLUME II THIRD CHAPTER (Adhyāya) FIRST QUARTER (Pāda) Adhikarana 1: The section entitled "Obtain- ing what is different from that". (Sūtras 1-7) SŪTRA 1 "IN OBTAINING (A BODY) DIFFERENT FROM THAT (THE SOUL) HASTENS CLOSELY EMBRACED, FROM QUESTION AND DETERMINA- TION." The interpretation of the Brahma-sūtras, entitled the Vedānta- pārijāta-saurabha, composed by the reverend Nimbārka. The object to be established (viz. Brahman) being definitely ascertained by means of concordance and non-contradiction,¹ now the means (sādhanas) are being determined Here with a view to generat- ing dispassion, the author is, first, exhibiting the soul's going to and returning from the heaven and the rest. The individual soul, having the stated marks ² and possessed of the vital-breath, discarding the present body, goes to another body, as "closely embraced" indeed by the subtle elements. This is known "from question to determina- tion", viz.: 'Do you know how in the fifth oblation water comes to have the speech of man?' (Chānd. 5.3.3 ³) and so on. THE COMMENTARY ENTITLED VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA, COMPOSED BY THE REVEREND ŚRĪNIVĀSA. The object to be resorted to, an ocean of all auspicious attributes, free by nature from all faults and the object which one should desire to enquire after—being determined in the two preceding chapters, ¹ The concordance of all the scriptural texts with regard to Brahman has been demonstrated in the first chapter; and the non-contradiction in the doctrine of the causality of Brahman, in the second. ² Vide Br. Sū. 2 3 16 ff. ³ Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B. ( 475 )