{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe48/sbe48086.htm","path":"hin/sbe48/sbe48086.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48086.htm","text":"20. And not that which Smriti assumes, on account of the declaration of qualities not belonging to that; nor the embodied one.\n'That which Smriti assumes' is the Pradh\u00e2na; the 'embodied one' is the individual soul. Neither of these can be the Ruler within, since the text states attributes which cannot possibly belong to either. For there is not even the shadow of a possibility that essential capability of seeing and ruling all things, and being the Self of all, and immortality should belong either to the non-sentient Pradh\u00e2na or to the individual soul.--The last two S\u00fbtras have declared that the mentioned qualities belong to the highest Self, while they do not belong to the individual soul. The next S\u00fbtra supplies a new, independent argument.","title":"SBE 48: The Vedanta-Sutras with commentary by Ramanuja, George Thibaut, tr.: Second P\u00e2da: 20. And not that which Smriti assumes...","type":"page"}