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[SŪ. 4. 4. 2. ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 859 We reply: "Having attained, manifestation". That is, having attained the form of highest light, the individual soul comes to have "manifestation", i.e. have its real nature and qualities, such as freedom from sins and so on, manifest,—this is what is established by the text. Why? "On account of the words 'in his own'", i.e. on account of the adjective: 'in his own form'. Otherwise, an adventitious form being established by the mere word 'form', the adjective 'in his own' would become meaningless. The sense is that the individual soul, the real nature of which is veiled during its state of bondage, having attained the Lord through the path beginning with light, becomes manifest in its own unenveloped and natural form. COMPARISON Śaṁkara According to him, sūtras 1-7 of this pāda refer to the higher knower, the rest to the lower knower. SŪTRA 2 "FREE, ON ACCOUNT OF PROMISE." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha It is said that he alone who is free from bondage is completed in his own form. Why? Because, beginning: "The soul that is free from sins" (Chānd. 8.7.1 ¹), Prajāpati promised: ‘ "But this alone I shall explain to you again "’ (Chānd. 8.9.3; 8.10.4, 5 ²). Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection, viz. One's natural form being ever present, what is the difference between the state of bondage and that of release,— the author replies: One, who being subject to nescience consisting in karmas is surrounded by matter in its causal and effected forms, who is tormented ¹ Ś, R, Bh, B. ² Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B. 25