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BHAKTI-YOGA.
reality, or, in other words, the highest possible reading of the absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Isvara.
In the fourth pada of the fourth chapter of his sutras, after stating that almost infinite power and knowledge will come to the liberated soul after the attainment of moksha, Vyasa makes the remark, in an aphorism, that none, however, will get the power of creating, ruling, and dissolving the universe, because that belongs to God alone. * In explaining this sutra it is easy for the dualistic commentators to shew how it is ever impossible for a subordinate soul, jiva, ever to have the infinite power and total independence of God. The thorough dualistic commentator Madhvacharya deals with
नगद्यापारवन प्रकरणादसबिहिवस्वाच ।
(Vedanta Sustras Ch. IV-4
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