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FOURTH CHAPTER (Adhyāya) FOURTH QUARTER (Pāda) Adhikarana 1: The section entitled "The mani- festation on attaining". (Sūtras 1-3) SŪTRA 1 "HAVING ATTAINED, (THERE IS) MANIFESTATION, ON ACCOUNT OF THE WORDS 'IN HIS OWN'." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha "Having attained" the Highest through the path beginning with light, the individual soul becomes manifest in its own natural form. This is proved by the text. "Having attained the form of highest light, he is completed in his own form" (Chānd. 8.12.3 ¹) "on account of the words 'in his own'". Vedānta-kaustubha It has been established in the previous quarter that the very same path, beginning with light, is designated by all Scriptures, and that it leads the knowers to the Highest Brahman. Now the problem is being discussed, viz. in what form one, who has attained Brahman through that path, becomes manifest. In the Chāndogya Prajāpati's declaration is recorded thus: "So exactly, this serene being, having arisen from the body, having attained the form of highest light, is completed in its own form." (Chānd. 8.12.3). Here the doubt is, viz. whether it is established by the text that one, who has attained the form of highest light, comes to have an adventitious form, or that having attained the Highest, the knower, becomes manifest in his own natural form alone. If it be suggested: From the words 'is completed' it is known that having attained the form of highest light, he comes to have an adventitious form like that of a god and so on,-- ¹ Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B. ( 858 )