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[SŪ. 4. 4. 19. VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 879 ADH. 6.] COMPARISON. Śaṁkara and Bhāskara Interpretation different, viz. The soul who has attained the effected Brahman has not unlimited lordship, since it depends on the Lord abiding in the disc of the sun and the rest.¹ SŪTRA 19 "AND THAT WHICH IS NOT SUBJECT TO CHANGE, FOR THUS (SCRIP- TURE) DECLARES (ITS) EXISTENCE." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The freed soul intuits Brahman alone, free from the changes of birth and the rest, an ocean of natural, inconceivable and infinite attributes, and possessed of super-human power, "for" Scripture declares the soul's "existence" during salvation ² to be "thus": "For when, verily, he finds fearlessness as a foundation in that which is invisible, incorporal, undefined, unsupported, then he has gone to fearlessness" (Tait. 2.7 ³), "Verily, he is the essence, for on attaining this essence one becomes blissful" (Tait. 2.7). Vedānta-kaustubha It has been said the lordship of the freed soul is exclusive of the activities in connection with the universe. On the enquiry: In what, then, does it consist?—the author now shows that the lordship of the freed soul consists in a direct intuition of the Highest Brahman, possessed of super-human power, and thereby rejects the view—sug- gested by the statement made above that the objects of enjoyment, inhering in the spheres of those who are entrusted with special offices, are the freed soul's objects of enjoyment,—viz. that the freed soul is just like the soul in bondage. ¹ Ś.B. 4.4.18, pp. 977-978; Bh. B. 4.4.8, p. 248. ² C.S.S. reads "mukta-sthiti", (p. 91), also Brindāban ed. (p 1354). ³ R.