The Eater is the Highest Self, because the moveable and the immoveable are taken as food. — 40.

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9. The Eater is the Highest Self, because the moveable and the immoveable are taken as food. — 40.

COMMENTARY

The Eater can be the Highest Self only, because the eating of the whole universe of moveables and immoveables is possible only in the case of Brahman. The words Brahmana and the Kshatriya are merely illustrative, and the whole universe sprinkled over by Death is referred to here as the Food. Such food can have no other Eater than the Supreme Self, for no Jiva can eat the whole universe. The word «sauce or condiment» is a thing which, while itself being eaten, causes other things to be eaten.

Therefore, while the Death itself is consumed, being a condiment as it were, it makes other things palatable. Therefore the Eater of the whole universe made palatable by Death, can mean only the Lord in His aspect of Destroyer; when at the time of Pralaya He withdraws all things within Himself. Therefore, the Supreme Self must be taken here to be the Eater. Nor is there any validity in the objection based on the text of t the Mundaka Upanishad which says that the Lord does not eat and the Jiva alone eats, for the prohibition of eating there refers to the eating of the fruit of actions. The Lord does not eat the fruit of actions of the Jiva. The Jiva alone cats such fruit That text does not mean that the Lord has no specific eating of His own, for the Lord has his own particular objects of enjoyment; as has been explained in the commentary on that verse of the Mundakya Upanishad.

SUTRA I. 2. 10.

प्रकरणाच्च॥१.२.१०॥

prakaraṇācca ..1.2.10..

… Prakaranat, because of the context. Cha, and.

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