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individual soul maintains the sense of its own egoity even in mukti. Rāmānuja says that were it a settled matter that release consists in the annihilation of the I, the same man would move away as soon as release were only hinted at. “When I myself have perished, there still persists some consciousness different from me", to bring this about nobody truly will exert himself. Thus, in liberation, body disappears but egoity persists.
Ramānuja does not accept S'amkara's interpretation that the differences of the jīvas are caused by the differences of upādhis like the internal organs which are variously associated with the same Supreme Self or they are caused by the Adrsta. The differences of upādhis which cause differences of individual souls are explained as caused by the principle of Adışta, and Adrsta itself is proved by the various activities caused by the individual souls out of upādhis; it is a circular argument and does not properly explain the priority of either of them. He argues-- "As the adựşțas also which are the causes of the series of upādhis have for their substrate Brahman itself, there is no reason for their definite allotment (to definite individual souls), and hence, again there is no definite separation of the spheres of experience. For, the limiting adjuncts as well as the adȚstas cannot by their connexion with Brahman split up Brahman itself which is essentially
Ramanuja - Com. on Vedānta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 1.1.1, p. 58,
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