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[SŪ. 3. 2. 36. 568 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 7 ] Vedānta-kaustubha It has been said that on account of the designation of difference, viz. “By him, by the Person, all this is filled. That which is beyond that is without form, without disease” (Śvet. 3 9-3.10), there is something ‘higher than this’. To this the author replies. On account of the stated reasons Brahman is without an equal and a superior; “likewise on account of the denial of another”, i.e. of an equal or a superior, as well, it is established that He has no equal or a superior; In accordance with the scriptural text: “Than whom there is nothing else whatsoever higher” (Śvet 3 9; Mahānār. 10.4) and so on,—the word ‘higher’ meaning something better, the word ‘something else’ meaning something equal ¹,—as well as in accordance with the Smṛti passage: ‘“There is nothing else higher than me, O Dhanañjaya !”’ (Gītā 7 7) and so on, the section is concerned with the supremacy of the Person, the topic of discussion ; and hence by the text. “That which is beyond that” (Śvet. 3.10) another reality is not established. On the contrary, in accordance with the text: “Than whom there is nothing else whatsoever higher, than whom there is nothing else smaller, nothing else greater,—the One stands motionless like a tree in heaven, by him, the Person, all this is filled” (Śvet. 3.9; Mahānār. 10 4), Brahman, the Highest Person, is without an equal and a superior, and all-pervading; and for this reason, Brahman, called ‘Person’, is said to be beyond that. COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara They understand this sūtra to mean that in Scripture there is the denial of anything else besides Brahman, and hence Brahman is the sole reality.² Śrīkaṇṭha This is sūtra 35 in his commentary. He begins a new adhikaraṇa here (two sūtras), concerned with the question whether there is anything equal to the Lord, the doubt that there may be something superior to Him being disposed of in the previous adhikaraṇa. Hence the sūtra “Likewise (i.e. just as

¹ The text is: “Yasmāt paraṁ nāparam asti kiñcit”. ² Ś.B. 3.2.36, pp 748-749, Bh. B. 3.2.36, p. 172.