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786 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 4. 1. 4. ADH. 3.] from its substratum,—texts like: "He who worships another deity, (thinking:) 'The Deity is one, I arother', does not know, like a beast" (Bṛh. 1.4.10) and so on, too, fit in. Since between Brahman and the individual soul there is a non-difference of this kind which is not in conflict with difference, there is no contradiction of scriptural and Smṛti passages and aphorisms like: "The conscious among the conscious" (Kaṭha 5.13; Śvet. 6.13), "'And I am superior to the imperishable as well'" (Gītā 15.18), "But on account of the teaching of something more" (Br. Sū. 3.4.8), "Not the other, on account of inappropriate- ness" (Br. Sū 1.1.17) and so on, the relation of difference-non- difference between the two being approved by all Scriptures. Hence "This is my self" (Chānd. 3.14.3, 4), "This is the inter soul of all beings" (Muṇḍ. 2.1.14),—so the previous teachers admit "This is your soul, within all" (Bṛh 3.4 1, 2; 3.5.1), "This is your self, the inner controller, immortal" (Bṛh. 3.7.3, etc.), "'All this has that for its soul . . . Thou art that'" (Chānd. 6.8.7) and so on,—so they teach their disciples the very same thing. In accordance with the Smṛti passage as well, viz. "'I am the soul, O thick-haired one! dwelling within the heart of all beings'" (Gītā 10.20), "'Know me also as the knower of the field'" ¹ (Gītā. 13.2), it is established that the Highest Person is to be meditated or as one's own self. Here ends the section entitled "Meditation under the aspect of self" (2). Adhikaraṇa 3: The section entitled "The Sym- bol". (Sūtras 4-5) SŪTRA 4 "NOT IN A SYMBOL, FOR THAT (IS) NOT (THE SELF)." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha But the self is not to be sought for "in a symbol"; "that" is "not" the self of the meditating devotee. ¹ I.e. the individual soul, the knower of the body.