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[sū. 4. 2. 15. ADH. 7 ] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 825 We reply: “Those” merge “in the Highest, i e. in Brahman, the Highest, the soul of all. Why? “For” Scripture itself “says” “thus”, i e says that the Highest Self is the resting place of the soul as He is during the state of deep sleep and universal dissolution, thus: “Fire in the highest divinity” (Chānd. 6.8.6.). That is, ‘fire’, or those subtle elements like fire and the rest, enter into the supreme cause. The sense is that having departed from the gross body, having resorted to the subtle body set up by knowledge, having thereby reached the Virajā, the best of the rivers, and having discarded the subtle body in the Highest, the knower attains the nature of the Highest Hence it is established that those merge in the Highest Here ends the section entitled “Entering into the Highest” (6). COMPARISON Śaṁkara According to him, this sūtra too refers to the higher knower only and not to the lower knower. The subtle body of a real knower is directly merged in Brahman at once, (without having to travel through any path) ¹ This is sūtra 15 in his commentary. Adhikarana 7: The section entitled “Non- division”. (Sūtra 15) SŪTRA 15 “NON-DIVISION, ON ACCOUNT OF DECLARATION.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Those subtle elements together with speech and the rest come to have “non-division”, i.e. essential identity, with the Highest “On account of the declaration”: “And their name and form are destroyed; it is simply called ‘a person’” (Praśna 6.5 ²). ¹ Ś.B. 4.2.15, pp. 940-941. ² Ś, B, B