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seen by any one excludes the individual soul. This exclusion of what has a nature other than that of the highest Self thus confirms the view of that Self being meant.Or else the Satra may be explained in a different way, viz.
On account of the exclusion of the existence of another.' On this alternative the text. There is nothing that sees but it,' &c., is to be understood as follows: 'while this Imperishable, not seen by others but seeing all others, forms the basis of all things different from itself; there is no other principle which, unseen by the Imperishable but seeing it, could form its basis,' i. e. the text would exclude the existence of any other thing but the Imperishable, and thus implicitly deny that the Imperishable is either the Pradhana or the individual Self.- Moreover the text By the command of that Imperishable men praise those who give, the gods follow the Sacrificer, the fathers the Darvi-offering,' declares the Imperishable to be that on the command of which there proceed all works enjoined by Scripture and Smriti, such as sacrificing, giving, &c., and this again shows that the Imperishable must be Brahman, the supreme Person. Again, the subsequent passus, 'Whosoever without knowing that Imperishable,' &c., declares that ignorance of the Imperishable leads to the Samsára, while knowledge of it helps to reach Immortality: this also proves that the Imperishable is the highest Brahman.—Here terminates the adhikarana of the Imperishable.'
12. On account of his being designated as the object of seeing, he (i. e. the highest Self) (is that object).
The followers of the Atharva-veda, in the section containing the question asked by Satyakama, read as follows: He again who meditates with this syllable Aum of three Mâtrâs on the highest Person, he comes to light and to the sun. As a snake frees itself from its skin, so he frees himself from evil. He is led up by the Saman verses to the Brahma-world; he sees the person dwelling in the castle who is higher than the individual souls concreted
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