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[sū. 3. 2 22. adh. 6.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 541 Adhikaraṇa 6: The section entitled "The so- muchness resulting from what has been pre- viously declared". (Sūtras 22-30) SŪTRA 22 "FOR (THE TEXT) DENIES THE SO-MUCHNESS RESULTING FROM WHAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY DECLARED, AND AFTER THAT SPEAKS (OF BRAHMAN AS LIMITLESS) ONCE MORE." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha On the doubt, viz whether the text: "Not so, not so" (Bṛh. 2 3 6 ¹) denies the corporeal and the incorporeal forms, mentioned previously in the passage "There are, verily, two forms of Brahman, the corporeal and incorporeal" (Bṛh. 2.3.1 ²), or denies simply Brah- man's so-muchness resulting from His connection with the previously mentioned forms---the suggestion being that it denies the forms of Brahman—we reply : It "denies" only "the so-muchness resulting from what has been previously mentioned". "After that," "once more" ³ the concluding portion of the text says: "For there is nothing higher than this— hence (it is called) 'not so' " (Bṛh. 2 3.6 ⁴) Vedānta-kaustubha It has been stated above that Brahman is possessed of a two-fold characteristic. Now the world is real, the world which consists of the sentient and the non-sentient, which is not known through any other means of knowledge, which is knowable from Scripture alone as a form of Brahman on account of having Brahman for its soul, and which is not deniable by such texts like: 'This is not a form of Brahman.' Now, it may be thought that Brahman, who possesses the world as His form and is endowed with infinite, inconceivable, auspicious 1 Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B. 2 Op. cit. This text occurs in Maitrī 6.3 as well. 3 The word "bhūyaḥ" may mean both 'once more' and 'something more'. It is not clear in which sense precisely Nimbārka understands it. Śrīnivāsa gives both the meanings, see V.K. below. 4 Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B.