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[sū. 3. 2. 22. 542 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH 6.] qualities and powers, becomes limited owing to His connection with the limited world. The author here denies this. In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, having begun thus: "There are, verily, two forms of Brahman, the corporeal and the incorporeal" (Bṛh 2 3.1), and having exhibited the particular forms of saffron-colour and the rest thus: "The form of this person, verily, is like the saffron- colour" (Bṛh. 2 3.6), the text goes on to record: "Hence, now, there is the teaching: 'Not so, not so'" (Bṛh 2.3.6) Among these, the corporeal, 1 e. the three elements fire, water and food, the incorporeal, i.e. the two elements air and ether ¹; as well as the particular forms of the saffron-colour and the rest ² have been mentioned before. Here the doubt is whether the text. "Not so, not so" (Bṛh. 2 3 6) denies the above-mentioned group of the corporeal and the incorporeal forms of Brahman, or denies Brahman's so-muchness, resulting from His posses- sion of the above-mentioned group of the corporeal and the incorporeal forms. Here on the suggestion: It denies the group of the corporeal and the incorporeal forms,—we reply: The text. "Not so, not so" "denies" Brahman's so-muchness, resulting from His connection with those corporeal and incorporeal forms which have been mentioned previously. The word "for" shows that no things, sentient and non- sentient, are capable of being denied—things which, on account of having Brahman for their soul, are His forms, as established by hundreds of scriptural passages, such as: "There are, verily, two forms of Brahman, the corporeal and the incorporeal" (Bṛh. 2.3.1), "Everything has that for its soul" (Chānd. 6.8.7; 6 9.4, etc.), "All this, verily, is Brahman" (Chānd. 3.14.1), "By proving the enjoyer, the object enjoyed and the Mover, all has been said. This is the three- fold Brahman" (Śvet. 1.12) and so on. The phrase: "And after that speaks once more" shows that Brahman is not limited by so-muchness. That is, "after that" or after denying the so-muchness of Brahman, "once more", i.e. again, the concluding portion of the text "speaks" of Brahman as not limited by so-muchness. Or else (an alternative explanation): the concluding portion of the text speaks of something more than the previously mentioned corporeal and incorporeal forms thus: "For there is nothing higher than it, hence (it is called) 'not so'. "Now (its) name is 'the real of the real'. ¹ Vide Bṛh 2 3.2-3. ² Vide Bṛh 2.3.6