{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe48/sbe48560.htm","path":"hin/sbe48/sbe48560.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48560.htm","text":"9. And for this very reason without another ruler.\nSince the released soul realises all its wishes, it does not stand under another ruler. For to be under a ruler means to be subject to injunction and prohibition, and to be such is opposed to being free in the realisation of all one's wishes. Hence Scripture says, 'he is a Self-ruler' (Kh. Up. VII, 25).--Here terminates the adhikarana of 'wishes.'","title":"SBE 48: The Vedanta-Sutras with commentary by Ramanuja, George Thibaut, tr.: Fourth P\u00e2da: 9. And for this very reason without another ruler","type":"page"}