वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[SŪ. 1. 1. 21 68 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 7 ] of Brahman from particular individual souls who have attained eminence by virtue of supreme merit, as well as from particular non- sentient objects, like time and the like. In the Chāndogya, we read: 'Now, this golden Person, who is seen within the sun, has a golden beard and golden hair, and is golden through and through, right to the finger-nail tips. His eyes are like the full-blown lotus. His name is High, (because) he has risen above all sins. Verily, he who knows thus rises above all sins. His singers are the Ṛc and the Sāman . . . .¹ So much with reference to the gods' (Chānd 1.6 6-1 6 8), 'Now, with reference to the self' (Chānd. 1.7 1), 'Now, this person, who is seen within the eye' (Chānd 1.7.5) and so on. Here, a doubt arises, viz whether this Person, mentioned in Scripture as abiding within the sun and the eye, is a particular indivi- dual soul, or the Supreme Lord? What is reasonable here? If it be suggested: An individual soul who has attained eminence. Why? Because the person within the sun and the person within the eye are declared by Scripture to be possessed of a form in the passages (respectively): 'Having a golden beard, golden hair' (Chānd. 1.6 6), 'The form of this one is the very same as the form of that one' (Chānd. 1.7 5); because a limit to the lordship of both is declared respectively by the texts—'He rules these worlds which are beyond that, as well as the desires of gods' (Chānd. 1.6.8), 'He rules these worlds which are under that, as well as the desires of men' (Chānd 1.7 6), because the dependence of both on something else is declared (respectively) by the texts: 'Within the sun' (Chānd. 1.6.6), 'Within the eye' (Chānd. 1.7.5), and because the Supreme Self is declared to be just the opposite by the texts 'Without sound, without touch, without form' (Kaṭha 3.15), '"On what, my reverend Sir, is it based?' "On its own greatness"' (Chānd. 7.24.1), 'This is the Lord of beings' (Bṛh. 4.4.22), etc.— We reply: The Person, mentioned in Scripture as "within" the sun and the eye is the Highest Self alone. Why? "On account of the teaching of his qualities," i e. because of the "teaching", in this text, of the qualities "of him", viz. of the Highest Soul alone, such as, being free from sins in every way, being the remover of all the sins ¹ Quotation incomplete—viz:— 'His singers are the Ṛc and the Sāman Therefore (they are called) the udgītha' and so on See footnote 1, p. 69