{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38285.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38285.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38285.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n5. To the elements (the soul, with pr\u00e2na, goes), on account of the subsequent scriptural clause.\nThe soul joined by the pr\u00e2na takes up its abode within the subtle elements which accompany heat and form the seed of the (gross) body. This we conclude from the clause, 'Breath in heat.'--But this passage declares, not that the soul together with the pr\u00e2na takes up its abode in heat, but only that the pr\u00e2na takes up its abode!--No matter, we reply; since the preceding S\u00fbtra intercalates the soul in the interval (between pr\u00e2na and tegas). Of a man who first travels from--Srughna to Mathur\u00e2 and then from Mathur\u00e2 to P\u00e2taliputra, we may say shortly that he travels from--Srughna to P\u00e2taliputra. The passage under discussion therefore means that the soul together with the pr\u00e2na abides in the elements associated with heat.--But how are you entitled to draw in the other elements also, while the text only speaks of heat?--To this question the next S\u00fbtra replies.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Fourth Adhy\u00e2ya. S...","type":"page"}