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[sū. 4. 2. 16. ADH. 8.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 827 Adhikaraṇa 8: The section entitled "His Abode". (Sūtra 16) SŪTRA 16 "(THERE IS) LIGHTING UP OF THE FOREPART OF HIS ABODE, WITH THE DOOR REVEALED BY HIM (VIZ. THE LORD) THROUGH THE MIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE AND THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF REMEM- BRANCE OF THE PATH WHICH IS A SUPPLEMENTARY PART OF THAT (VIZ. KNOWLEDGE), (THE KNOWER), FAVOURED BY ONE WHO DWELLS IN THE HEART, (DEPARTS) THROUGH THE HUNDRED AND FIRST (VEIN)." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha There is a vein, mentioned in Scripture thus: "There are hundred and one veins of the heart. Of these, one passes out of the crown of the head. Going up by it, one goes to immortality. Others are for departing in other directions" (Chānd. 8.6.5¹). When the knower comes to be "favoured" by the object to be known (viz. the Lord) who has become pleased "through the might of (his) knowledge and through the application of the remembrance of the path which is a supplementary part of that (viz knowledge)",—then there results "a lighting up of the forepart of his abode", viz. the heart. Then "with the door revealed" by the Highest Lord, he, knowing that vein, departs through it Vedānta-kaustubha Under the aphorism: "And the same up to the beginning of the path" (Br. Sū. 4.2.7), the modes of the departure of the knower and the non-knower have been determined to be the same. It has been said also that the knower's subtle body dissolves in the Highest and, as such, becomes identical with Him. Now, the points of difference between their modes of departure are being stated. The Scriptural text "There are a hundred and one veins of the heart. Of these, one passes out of the crown of the head. Going up by it, one goes to immortality. Others are for departing in other 1 Ś. R., Bh., Śk. 23