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[SŪ. 3. 3. 40. 668 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 17.] "Having attained the form of highest light, he is completed in his own form" (Chānd. 8.3.4, 8.12.3), "He is the excellent person. He roams about there laughing, playing, enjoying with women, or with carriages, or with relatives, not remembering the appendage of this body" (Chānd. 8.12.3), "He becomes a self-ruler. He comes to have freedom of movement in all the worlds" (Chānd. 7.25.2), "As to the perfection of means to the four ends of men,—without it a man, whose refuge is Nārāyaṇa, attains them", and so on. Thus, there is a great difference between devotion to works and devotion to knowledge. Hence it is established that through the mutual insertion of the attributes of having true desires and so on and of being the controller and the rest, the Brahma-vidyās of the Chāndogas and of the Vājasaneyins are the very same. Here ends the section entitled "Desire" (17). COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara This is sūtra 41 in Śaṁkara's commentary. Here they answer the prima facie view stated in the previous sūtra, thus: "When (eating is actually) taking place, (then alone an offering to the vital- breaths is to be made) from that (i.e. from the first food), on account of statement to the effect". ¹ Śrīkaṇṭha He takes it to be forming an adhikaraṇa by itself. Interpreta- tion different. The question is whether the freed attain the very nature of Brahman, as possessed of infinite auspicious attributes, and so on, or something else. The prima facie view is that Brahman is declared to be free from distinctions or nirviśeṣa. Hence the freed souls attain this distinctionless form of Brahman. The answer is: "When one has approached (Brahman, one attains the nature of Brahman as possessed of all auspicious attributes), for that reason (i.e. because the freed soul attains its own form), (and) because of texts to that effect (i.e. that the freed become similar to the Lord)". ² ¹ Ś.B. 3.3.41, pp. 822–824; Bh. B. 3.3.40 (written as 3 3 41), pp. 191-192. ² ŚK. B. 3.3.40, pp. 356-357, Parts 10 and 11. 13B