ata eva copamā sūryakādivat ..3.2.18..

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SUTRA III. 2. 18.

अत एव चोपमा सूर्यकादिवत्॥३.२.१८॥

ata eva copamā sūryakādivat ..3.2.18..

Atah eva, for this very reason. .. Cha, and. (Another reading has. .. Na, not), … Upama, similarity, or absolute identity. … Suryakadivat, just as between the sun and its images.

18. Therefore, the simile of the sun and its reflection (holds good with regard to the Jiva and the Supreme Self as showing difference). — 337.

COMMENTARY

Because the Jiva is separate from the Supreme Self, therefore, it is spoken of figuratively like the reflection, of the sun. This is the meaning of the Sutra, when the reading is … instead of …. For in two (?) substances which are identically one, there cannot exist the relationship of the reflector and the reflected. For if the reflection were identically the same as its source, then the shadow of the fire would also cause burning, the reflection of a sword would cut substances.

But there is, however, no such identity, for the two are different.

The word ‘and’ in the Sutra includes other causes of differences also.

Therefore, it follows that the Jiva is different from the Supreme Self.

Adhikarana X — Jiva is not a reflection of God

Admitted that the Jiva is different from the Supreme, on account of the above simile, but that very simile, however, shows that the Jiva is a reflection at least of the Intelligence. As the reflection of the sun in water is called Suryaka, so the reflection of the Supreme in the Avidya, is called Jiva. Where is the harm in it?

This doubt, however, is also set aside by the next Sutra.

SUTRA III. 2. 19.

अम्बुवदग्रहणात्तु न तथात्वम्॥३.२.१९॥

ambuvadagrahaṇāttu na tathātvam ..3.2.19..

.. Ambuvat, like in or of water, like the reflection of the sun in water. The affix, Vat, has the force of «like» and the word before it is cither in the sixth or in the seventh case. ... Agrahanat, in the absence of perception. …Tu, but, has the sense of exclusion. .. Na, not. … Tathatvam, that state, (i.e., that of equality). The simile does not hold good.

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