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[SŪ. 4. 4. 15. 874 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 5.] SŪTRA 15 "THE ENTERING (INTO MANY BODIES IS) AS IN THE CASE OF A LAMP, FOR (SCRIPTURE) SHOWS THUS." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The soul’s "entering" into many bodies takes place through its attribute of knowledge, as of the lamp through its ray,—"for" the scriptural text: "It is capable of infinity" (Śvet. 5.9 ¹) "shows thus". Vedānta-kaustubha Apprehending the objection, viz. The manifoldness, mentioned in the text: "He becomes three-fold" (Chānd. 7.26.2) and so on, is not possible on the part of the freed soul even though it may have a body, since it is never possible for one and the same soul, which is atomic by nature, to pervade many bodies,—the author replies: "The entering" of the freed soul, atomic in size and abiding within one body, into many bodies,—i.e. its complete entering into those bodies as their soul with the thought: 'This is my body and that as well'—is possible through its attribute of knowledge. "As in the case of a lamp." That is, just as a lamp, though placed in one place, pervades many places through its attribute, viz. rays, so is the case here. "For thus" Scripture shows, viz. "The individual soul is to be known as a hundredth part of the point of a hair, divided a hundred times, yet it is capable of infinity" (Śvet. 5.9). Śaṁkara and Bhāskara They interpret the sūtra a little differently, viz. Just as one lamp multiplies itself into many lamps—all lighted from the original lamp, —so the freed soul multiplies itself into many bodies, since it has the power of realizing its wishes.² ¹ R. ² Ś.B. 4.4.15, p. 975; Bh. B 4.4.15, p. 247.