वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

514 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [SŪ. 3 2. 5. ADH 1,] The word "but" is meant for disposing of the above objection. Though the attributes of having true resolves and the rest are natural to the individual soul,—which is a part of Brahman, which is deluded by nescience consisting in beginningless karmas, and which, for that very reason, has its face turned away from the Lord,—yet they become "hidden" during its state of bondage. Why? "Through the wish of the Highest," i.e. 'through the wish' or the resolution in accordance with the deeds of the soul, "of the Highest" or of the Supreme Person. The word "for" implies emphasis. "From that" resolution alone "its" "bondage and (its) reverse" arise, as declared by the scriptural texts: "The cause of transmigration, bondage, subsistence and salvation" (Śvet. 6.16). "For, truly, when he finds fearlessness as a foundation in that which is invisible, incorporeal, undefined and unsupported, then he is gone to fearlessness. When, however, he makes the smallest distinction therein, then he comes to have fear" (Tait. 2.7) and so on; and in accordance with the Smṛti passages: "The binder with the noose of the world and the liberator from the noose of the world" and so on. COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara Interpretation absolutely different, viz. "But through the medita- tion on the Highest, the hidden (attributes of the soul become manifest), for from that its bondage and (its) reverse (arise)." That is, if it be said that the soul being a part of Īśvara is possessed of the power of realizing all its wishes, and hence it creates real dream-objects,— the answer is that the real attributes of the soul, viz its power of realizing all wishes and so on, remain hidden through nescience and become manifest only through the meditation on the Lord. ¹ Thus their interpretation of the first portion of the sūtra is diametrically opposed to Nimbārka's. Nimbārka Śaṁkara and Bhāskara Through the wish of the Highest Through the meditation on (the real attributes of the soul the Highest the hidden (at- become) hidden. tributes of the soul become manifest). ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― ¹ Ś. B. 3.2.5, p. 711; Bh. B. 3.2.5, p. 162.