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512 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [SŪ. 3. 2. 4 ADH. 1.] individual soul were the creator of dream-objects, then it would have enjoyed happiness alone by creating women and the rest which are indicative of good alone, but it would never have created a black person and the rest for its own destruction. And the followers of that branch too ¹ speak of the Supreme Soul as the maker of objects of desires, thus. "He is awake in those that are asleep, the Person, making desire after desire That alone is the bright, that is Brahman, that alone is said to be the Immortal In Him all the worlds rest, no one surpasses Him" (Katha 5.8), it being impossible for the marks, stated in the scriptural text about dream-creation and referring to the Supreme Lord, to refer to the individual soul COMPARISON Śaṁkara Interpretation different, viz. "Because a (dream though unreal) (is yet) indicative (of the future), those who are versed in it also declare (this)" That is, although the dream itself is unreal, yet the thing indicated by it may be real. Further, the dream-objects are created by the individual soul itself, and not by the Supreme Soul, though it is not denied altogether that the Supreme Self is active in dreams, since the Lord of all, the Supreme Soul, is the controller of the soul at all times and in all its states ². This view is diametrically opposed to Nimbārka's view, as evident. Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha They change the order of the sūtras 4–6 which will be noticed at the end of sūtra 6 Interpretation same Bhāskara Interpretation different, viz. "And (the individual soul and not the Lord is the creator of dream-objects,) (for) (a dream is) indicative (of future good and evil), those who are versed in it (also) declare (so)". That is, it is unreasonable to suppose that what is created by ¹ Viz. Katha., mentioned by the prima facie objector. ² Ś, B. 3.2.4, pp. 309-10.