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616 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 3. 3. 23. ADH. 8.] Nārada, a God-possessed soul, approached Sanatkumāra with a view to learning about the Supreme Soul from him. This proves that the God-possessed souls are not perfect like the Lord. Hence they cannot be worshipped as possessed of His attributes.¹ Adhikaraṇa 8: The section entitled “Holding together”. (Sūtra 23) SŪTRA 23 “(THE ATTRIBUTES LIKE) HOLDING TOGETHER AND PERVADING THE HEAVEN TOO (ARE NOT TO BE INSERTED IN ALL VIDYĀS) AND FOR THIS REASON.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Owing to the very same difference of places,² there is no insertion, in other vidyās, of the attributes like “holding together, pervading the heaven” and so on, laid down in the manual of the Taittirīyas ³ thus: “The powers of which Brahman is the oldest, were held together. Brahman stretched out the heaven, the oldest, in the beginning” (Tait. Br. 2.4.7, 10 ⁴). Vedānta-kaustubha Now (the author) is extending the above-mentioned maxim to other cases. In the manual of the Taittirīyas, i e. in the supplementary writings of the Rāṇāyanīyas, a mass of attributes belonging to Brahman, such as, holding the powers together, pervading the heaven and so on, is recorded in the passage: “The powers of which Brahman is the oldest, were held together. Brahman stretched out the heaven, the oldest, in the beginning. Brahman was born first among all beings.⁵ Who then is fit to rival that Brahman?” (Tait. Br. 2.4.7, 10). The sense is: ‘energies’—here the word ‘vīryyāḥ’ (in the masculine gender) means ‘vīryyāṇi’ (in the neuter gender)—have Brahman as their ¹ G.B 3.3.23, p. 148, Chap. 3. ² Vide Br. Sū. 3.3.21. ³ A school of the Yajur-veda ⁴ Pp. 252-253. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK. Cf. Athar. V. 19.22.21, 30—same, only “Brahma-jyeṣṭhā sambhṛtā vīryyāṇi”,—slightly different. ⁵ The text reads: “Ṛtasya Brahma prathamota jajñe”.