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[sū. 1. 1. 11. ADH 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 51 ‘ ‘ “ When this person sleeps here, as we say, my dear, then he has become united with the Existent, he has entered into his own. Hence they say of him “ He sleeps ”, for he has entered into his own ” ’ (Chānd 6 8 1) There is also another scriptural text, viz. ‘ Just as a man, when embraced by his dear wife, knows nothing external or internal, so this person, when embraced by the intelligent soul, knows nothing external or internal ’ (Bṛh. 4.3.21). COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 9 in his commentary. Reading different—viz. ‘ Svāpyāt ’. Interpretation too different, viz. ‘ (The creator of the world is not the Saguṇa Brahman), because the Creator merges into himself, (not so the Saguṇa Brahman, who merges into something other than himself) ’ ¹ SŪTRA 11 “ (BRAHMAN ALONE IS THE CAUSE OF THE WORLD), ON ACCOUNT OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF KNOWING (HIM AS THE CAUSE).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha As a sentient cause is known from all the Vedāntas, the doctrine of a non-sentient cause is untenable. Vedānta-kaustubha For this reason too, pradhāna is not denoted by the term ‘existent’, viz. on account of the universality of ‘ knowing ’, i.e. apprehending. One sentient cause of the world being known from all the Upaniṣads, the sentient Brahman alone is the cause of the origin and the rest of the world. Nor, again, even the slightest inconsistency is found in the Vedāntas, such as, in some places a sentient cause is taught, in others a non-sentient. The sense is that if here a non-sentient object be understood by the term ‘existent’, the multitude of texts, speaking of a sentient cause, will come to be contradicted. ¹ G.B. 1 1.9, pp. 51-52, Chap. 1.