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[sū. 3. 2. 23-24. ADH. 6.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 545 SŪTRA 23 “THAT (VIZ BRAHMAN IS) UNMANIFEST, FOR SCRIPTURE STATES.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The scriptural text: “He is not apprehended by the eye, nor by speech” (Muṇḍ. 3.1.8 ¹) and so on, states that Brahman is “Un- manifest”. Vedānta-kaustubha The author points out that Brahman, immanent in the corporeal and the rest, yet transcendent, is not apprehended by the ordinary sense-organs. “That,” i.e. Brahman, is “Unmanifest”, “for” Scripture “states” : “His form is not present to vision, no one whosoever sees Him with the eye” (Kaṭha. 6.9 ; Śvet. 4.20), “He is not apprehended by the eye, nor by speech” (Muṇḍ. 3.1.8) and so on. COMPARISON Śaṁkara Like Nimbārka, he also holds that Brahman is not perceivable by the ordinary sense-organs; although unlike Nimbārka he holds here, as before, that Brahman has no corporeal and incorporeal forms.² Baladeva He takes it to be forming an adhikaraṇa by itself. —————— SŪTRA 24 “AND (BRAHMAN IS REVEALED) IN PERFECT MEDITATION, ON ACCOUNT OF PERCEPTION (I E. SCRIPTURE) AND INFERENCE (I.E. (SMṚTI).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha But Brahman is revealed in loving devotion, i.e. in meditation, in accordance with the following scriptural and Smṛti texts, viz. “He, with his nature purified through the clarification of the

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¹ Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B ² Ś.B. 3.2.23, p. 741.