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SUTRA IV. 4. 20.

दर्शयतश्चैवं प्रत्यक्षानुमाने॥४.४.२०॥

darśayataścaivaṃ pratyakṣānumāne ..4.4.20..

.. Darshayatah, they both show. … Cha, and. …, Evam, thus, … Pratyaksha, direct knowledge: … Anumane, and inference: Smriti.

20. The Revelation and Tradition also show it thus. — 557.

COMMENTARY

Though the Mukta Jiva is as described above (namely, is intelligence, bliss, will power, etc.), yet in its own nature it is not endowed with infinite bliss (or infinite knowledge, etc.): because it is atomic in size. (It is by its falling into the infinite ocean) of Brahman, that it acquires measureless bliss. This is shown both by the Revelation as well as by Tradition. Thus the Taittiriya Upanishad 11., 7, «Rasam hy ova ayam lubdhva anandi bhavati»: «indeed by getting this Flavour, he becomes blessed». So also in the Gita, XIV., 27:

For I am the abode of the eternal, and of the indestructible nectar of immortality, of immemorial righteousness, and of unending bliss.

The word ‘Cha’ in the Sutra indicates that we may also apply the analogical reasoning here. As a poor man becomes rich when he takes refuge with a rich person and becomes his favourite, so the Jiva essentially atomic, becomes infinite through the infinity of the Lord.

But, says an objector: Does not the following text show that the Released gets the highest similarity with God? And if the Released is similar to God, it is by virtue of Ii is own self that he becomes god-like, what is the necessity of a God then? The following verse of the Mundaka Upanishad, III., 1. 3, shows this similarity:

When the seer sees the brilliant maker and Lord of the world as the Person in whom Brahma has his source, then he becomes wise, and shaking off good and evil, he reaches the highest similarity, free from passions.

Objection: No doubt, the soul is spoken of as atomic, but that is merely a figure of speech, in order to facilitate the understanding of it The Buddhi is atomic and its attribute is wrongly ascribed to the Jiva who is really Vibhu or all-pervading.

This objection is answered in the next Sutra.

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