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[sū. 3. 2. 19. ADH 5 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 537 as the sun (or the bimba) is different from its image (or the prati- bimba), so the Lord is different from the individual soul ¹ PRIMA FACIE VIEW (Sūtra 19) SŪTRA 19 "BUT ON ACCOUNT OF THE NON-APPREHENSION LIKE WATER, THERE IS NO BEING SO." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha It is doubted. Water is apprehended to be remote from the sun, but not so the place (viz. the individual soul) from the whole (viz. the Lord).² Hence the example cited is not to the point. Vedānta-kaustubha It is doubted that the example cited does not illustrate the point. The word "but" is indicative of the doubt. It may be objected "There is no being so", i.e Brahman is not like the reflected sun. Why? "On account of the non-apprehension like water," i.e. water is apprehended to be remote from the sun, and the sun and the rest, though reflected on it, are yet not touched by its imperfections as they are remote from it; but all the sentient and the non-sentient are not apprehended, as in the case of water, to be remote from Brahman. Compare the scriptural texts: "He who abiding within the earth" (Bṛh. 3.7.3), "He who abiding within water" (Bṛh. 3.7.4), "He who abiding in the soul" (Śat. Br. 14.6.7.30 ³), "In whom all the worlds are situated" (Kaṭha. 5.8, 6.1) and so on; and also the Smṛti passages: '"The Lord dwells, O Arjuna, in the heart- region of all'" (Gītā 18.61), '"In me all this is woven"' (Gītā 7.7) and so on. Hence there is no parallelism between the Supreme Person, the topic of discussion, and the reflected sun and the rest. 1 G B. 3.2.18, pp. 65-66, Chap. 3. 2 The C.S.S. ed. (p. 54) reads "sthāninah". 3 P. 1074, line 8