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[SŪ 3. 2. 11. 522 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 5.] Adhikarana 5. The section entitled "Possessed of two-fold characteristics". (Sūtras 11–21) SŪTRA 11 "NOT ON ACCOUNT OF PLACE EVEN (IS THERE ANY IMPERFECTION) ON THE PART OF THE HIGHEST, BECAUSE EVERYWHERE (HE IS DESCRIBED AS) POSSESSED OF TWO-FOLD CHARACTERISTICS" Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha It has been already proved ¹ that the respective imperfections of the souls do not pertain to the Highest Self, though abiding within all, since He is not subject to karmas. There is no imperfection "on the part of the Highest, on account of place even", since "every- where" Brahman is stated to be free from all defects and endowed with all auspicious qualities. Vedānta-kaustubha With a view to generating an aversion to transmigratory existence, the particular states of this individual soul have been briefly demon- strated above. The attributes of Brahman, the Highest Person, such as, being the creator of dream-creation, having true resolves, being the cause of pleasure during deep sleep and so on too have been demon- strated for the sake of generating an yearning for Him. Now, for generating an yearning for the Highest, the reverend author wants to establish that He is free by nature from all faults and is one mass of all auspicious qualities. Hence he says this. On the doubt, viz. whether those imperfections,—which arising from the different places pertain to the individual soul abiding in those places, viz. waking, dream and deep sleep,—pertain to the Highest Self, or not,—the prima facie view is as follows: Although it has been stated in the first chapter under the aphorism: "If it be objected that enjoyment results, (we reply.) no, on account of dif- ference" (Br. Sū. 1.2.8), that those imperfections cling only to the individual soul, a self-conscious agent, but never to the Highest Self who is not subject to karmas,—yet just as, like Yajñadatta, the owner of a house, his friend Devadatta too, who has entered there, comes to be affected by the heat of fire, owing to his connection

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¹ Vide V.P.S. 1.2.8.