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538 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [Sū. 3. 2. 20. ADH. 5 ] CORRECT CONCLUSION (Sūtras 20-21) SŪTRA 20 "(BRAHMAN'S) PARTICIPATION IN THE INCREASE AND DECREASE ON ACCOUNT OF BEING INCLUDED WITHIN (IS DENIED), ON ACCOUNT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO (I.E. THE EXAMPLE AND THE EXEMPLIFIED) (IT IS) SO." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha With regard to it, we reply: "The participation" of the Lord of places (i.e. Brahman) "in the increase and decrease" of the places (i.e. the individual souls and matter),—He being their Inner Con- troller,—is what is denied by the example. "On account of the agreement between the two," it is "so", i.e. only the intended portion is to be understood. Vedānta-kaustubha With regard to it, the author replies: The word 'no' is to be supplied from the preceding aphorism. In spite of His "being included within" the places, there is no "parti- cipation in the increase and decrease",—due to those places,—on the part of Brahman, the Highest, who is the lord of places, in accord- ance with the scriptural texts: "He who abiding within the earth" (Bṛh. 3.7.3), "He who abiding within the soul" (Śat. Br. 6.7.30). This is what is denied by the example of the sun and the rest. "On account of the agreement between the two (this is) so", i.e. on account of the agreement between the illustration and the illustrated, only the relevant portion is to be understood. Thus, just as the ether, though actually entered within pots, jars and so on, does not parti- cipate in the faults of increase and decrease,—although the ether is in every pot and is distinguished conventionally as: 'There is no water in this pot', 'There is sugar in another', yet it remains one only,—and just as the sun, reflected on different receptacles of water, does not participate in the faults of their increase and decrease, on the contrary manifests a multitude of objects under water,—so the Supreme Brahman, who is one only, abides as manifold in the sentient and non-sentient objects as their Inner Controller, but is not touched by their respective faults, is not divided by their re- spective differences and does not participate in their increase and