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[sū. 4. 3. 9. ADH. 5.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 847 In accordance with the scriptural text: "He who creates Brahmā" (Śvet. 6.18), Hiraṇyagarbha, the effected Brahman, is the first-created being, and as such "on account of (his) proximity" to Brahman, the cause, the designation of him, by the neuter gender, denotative of the cause, viz.: "Leads them to Brahman" (Chānd 4.15.5), is appropriate. COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 9 in his commentary. Interpretation different, viz. "But the designation of that (viz. salvation) is on account of nearness". That is, the souls are said to go to the world of Brahman and never return (Bṛh 6 2.15) not because they obtain salvation directly, but because they are very near getting it.¹ FIRST OPPONENT'S VIEW (continued) SŪTRA 9 "ON THE DISSOLUTION OF (THE WORLD) OF THE EFFECTED (BRAH- MAN), WITH ITS RULER, (THE SOUL GOES) TO WHAT IS HIGHER THAN HIM, ON ACCOUNT OF DECLARATION" Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha On the destruction of the world "of the effected" Brahman, the soul together with the effected Brahman, attains "what is higher than" the effected Brahman, "on account of the declaration": "But they all, attaining the highest immortality, are freed in the world of Brahman at the time of the great end" (Muṇḍ. 3.2.6 ²). Vedānta-kaustubha An objection may be raised here, viz. The path beginning with light cannot lead to the world of Hiraṇyagarbha for the following

¹ G.B. 4.3.9, p. 72, Chap 4. ² R, Śk.