And became all the qualities and absence of all defects are possible (and actually found) in Brahman.

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38. And became all the qualities and absence of all defects are possible (and actually found) in Brahman.

That all the qualities even those apparently of a contrary nature meet in the Lord, is distinctly told in the text, “All the qualities declared in Scripture even those of the opposite character are present in the Lord, as well as those that are not declared. And no doubt is to be allowed to remain here, whether the qualities are conceivable or inconceivable; on the other hand all the effects apparently heard or conceived by the ignorant are absent in the Lord.”

End of the First Pada

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SECOND ADHYAYA

SECOND PADA

In the aphorism “And on account of the non-perception of other (possible) results, etc.,” (II-i-2), a general refutation of (other) systems was made. (Now) in this Pada, the Sutrakara refutes the same systems in detail. First he refutes the theory which holds that lifeless matter proceeds (to create the world).

1. That which is inferred (by the Sankhyas, namely, the Pradhana) cannot be (the cause of the world), also on account of the impossibility of its being the agent of the orderly arrangement (of the world).

The Pradhana which is inferred to be the cause of the world cannot be such; for it is lifeless matter, and consequently incapable of independent activity. By the word ‘also’, the Sutrakara indicates that there is no authority whatever (to support the hypothesis of the Sankhya).

2. And on account of activity (being seen only in the intelligent being).

For, on the other hand, it is the intelligent being that is capable of self-directed activity. (As all activity connected with matter is necessarily due to the guidance of an intelligence which can adapt means to an end, matter alone cannot be the cause of the world).

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