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[SŪ. 4. 4. 5. ADH. 3.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 863 soul and the Lord, otherwise in accordance with scriptural and Smṛti texts like: ‘ “The existent alone, my dear, was this in the beginning, one only and without a second” ’ (Chānd 6.2.1), “All this, verily, is Brahman” (Chānd. 3.14.1), “Vāsudeva is everything”, “Know every- thing Kṛṣṇa, the movable and the immovable, all souls and the universe as Kṛṣṇa” (Mahā. 13.7391 ¹), there must be a non-distinction of nature between the non-sentient and the Lord too, or,²—because Scripture is found to refer to distinction and non-distinction. Hence it is established that the freed soul realizes itself as non-distinct from the Highest Self, which non-distinction is compatible with distinction. Here ends the section entitled “Seen as non-divided” (4). COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara To understand the word “avibhāga” as absolute identity ³ Adhikaraṇa 3: The section entitled “Relating to Brahman”. (Sūtras 5-7) FIRST OPPONENT'S VIEW (Sūtra 5) SŪTRA 5 “AS RELATING TO BRAHMAN, JAIMINI (THINKS SO), ON ACCOUNT OF REFERENCE AND SO ON.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The individual soul becomes manifest as endowed with the attributes “relating to Brahman”, such as freedom from sins and 1 P. 258, line 7, vol. 4. Reading: “Sarvaṁ kṛtsnam . . . viśvam enam”. 2 An alternative explanation of the word “dṛṣṭatvāt”. 3 Ś.B. 4.4.4, p. 969, Bh. B 4.4.4, p. 243.