वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

596 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [SŪ. 3. 3. 10. ADH. 3.] prima facie view is that since they have not been mentioned in those scriptural texts as belonging to the vital-breath, they are not to be so included. With regard to it, we reply "These," i.e. the attributes of being richest and the best belonging to speech and so on, are to be accepted as belonging to the vital-breath, "elsewhere" than in the Chāndogya and the rest, i e in the meditations on the vital-breath of the Kauṣī- takins as well. Why? "On account of the non-difference of every- thing," i c because in all the three dialogues the cause of the seniority and excellence of the vital-breath, the object to be meditated on, is the very same Just as in the meditations on the vital-breath in the Chāndogya and the rest, the dependence of speech and the rest and of the body on the vital-breath, as well as the connection of the vital- breath with the attributes of being the richest and the rest have been stated with a view to establishing the seniority and excellence of the vital-breath,—so in the meditations on the vital-breath in the Kauṣītaki too, the attributes of speech and the rest, such as being the richest and so on, have been stated with the same view to establishing the seniority and excellence of the vital-breath. The text: "Then these divi- nities said to Father Prajāpati 'Who among us is the best?' He, Prajāpati, said: 'That one among you, on whose departure the body appears to be most miserable, is the best'. Then speech went out",¹ and so on, shows that speech and the rest, their attributes, as well as the body depend on the vital-breath. Here, their own attributes of being the richest and the rest are not attributed to the vital-breath by speech and the rest. Hence they are to be ascribed to the vital-breath,—this is established Here ends the section entitled "Non-difference of everything" (3). COMPARISON Śāṃkara, Bhāskara and Śrīkaṇṭha The interpretation of the phrase: "Sarvābhedāt" different, viz. "on account of the non-difference of the prāṇa-vidyā in the three Upaniṣads". That is, the meditation on the vital-breath is every- 1 Cf the very similar passages in Chānd. 5.1 7–5.1.8.