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[SŪ. 4. 3. 5. VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 843 ADH. 4.] COMPARISON Śaṃkara and Baladeva After this sūtra, they insert another sūtra. “Ubhaya-vyāmohāt tat-siddheḥ”, not found in Nimbārka’s commentary. Śaṃkara explains the phrase: “Ubhaya-vyāmohāt” as ‘because of the perplexity (of both the souls and light and the rest)’. That is, when the souls leave the body to travel through the path of gods, their organs being incapable of functioning, they cannot control themselves, but need conductors to lead them. The light and the rest too, being non- intelligent, cannot conduct them. For these two reasons, we must hold that light and the rest are really conducting divinities.¹ Baladeva explains the phrase thus: ‘On account of the untenable- ness of the two alternatives’. That is, light and the rest can neither be landmarks, nor persons standing on the path. Hence these two alternatives being impossible, the third alternative, viz. that they are conducting divinities, is the correct one.² SŪTRA 5 “THENCE FORWARD, (THE SOUL IS CONDUCTED) ONLY BY ONE WHO BELONGS TO LIGHTNING, THAT BEING DECLARED BY SCRIP- TURE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Above lightning, the knower is led by the non-human person alone. Varuṇa and the rest, on the other hand, are assistants con- jointly. Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection, viz. In accordance with the text: “From the moon to lightning. Then there is a non-human Person. He leads them to Brahman” (Chānd. 4.15.5), it follows that it is the non-human Person alone who leads the souls from lightning to Brahman, and that ¹ Ś.B. 4.3.5, pp. 952–956. ² G.B. 4.3.5, pp. 68–69, Chap. 4 24