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[SŪ. 3. 4. 8 720 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 1 ] to be known,—the view of the reverend “Bādarāyaṇa” is that “the end of men arises from this” (Br. Sū. 3. 4. 1), “On account of that being seen” from the texts: “He is the Lord of all” (Bṛh. 4. 4. 22 ¹), “Entered within, the ruler of men” (Tait. Ār. 3.11. 1, 2 ²), “The ruler of all, the controller of all” (Bṛh. 4.4.22 ³), “I ask about that Person taught in the Upaniṣads” (Bṛh. 3.9.26 ⁴), “The word which all the Vedas record” (Kaṭha 2.15 ⁵) and so on. Vedānta-kaustubha On this suggestion, (the author) replies: The word “but” is for disposing of the prima facie view. The view of Jaimini,—that by way of effecting the purification of what is complementary to work, viz. the agent, knowledge, obtainable from the Upaniṣads, is a subsidiary part of work,—is not correct. On the contrary, “on account of the teaching of what is superior” to the individual soul, the agent, possessed of the stated marks, i.e. as the Highest Person,—the soul of all, free by nature from all faults, an abode of a mass of auspicious qualities, possessed of natural, infinite and inauspicious powers, the cause of the world, the Lord of matter and soul and the Lord of all,—is taught as the object of knowledge, as He alone is established as the object to be known by the Vedāntas, the end of men arises from knowledge,—“such” is the view of the reverend “Bādarāyaṇa”. Why? “On account of that being seen,” i.e. because texts are found which establish “that”, viz. the Highest Self alone, the object to be known, i.e. a multitude of texts are found establishing Him, such as: “All this has that for its self” (Chānd. 6.8.7, etc.), “Higher than the imperishable, the high” (Muṇḍ. 2.1.2), “Free from sins, ageless, deathless, griefless, without hunger, without thirst, having true desires, having true resolves” (Chānd. 8.7.1, 3), “He who is omniscient, all-knowing” (Muṇḍ. 1.1.9; 2.2.7), “He consists of infinite auspicious qualities.— He is possessed of might, power, lordship and supreme knowledge” (V.P. 6.5.84 ⁶), “Supreme is his power, declared to be of various kinds, and natural is the operation of his knowledge and might” (Śvet. 6.8), “He is the cause, the lord of the lord of the sense-organs” (Śvet. 6.9), ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― ¹ R. ² P. 181. Not quoted by others. ³ Op. cit. ⁴ Op. cit. ⁵ Op. cit. ⁶ P. 837.