The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s2.t1.7

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The plurality of the soul is only phenomenal and is conditioned by the Upâdhis such as Buddhi etc., just as the plurality of space by the vessels (note 106) which bound it. In the same way we must take it as referring to the Upâdhis when the Scripture occasionally seems to speak of an origin and dissolution of the soul; this means only an origin and dissolution of the Upâdhis; *e. g.* in the passage (above p. 175) "after death there is no consciousness." 109—By the identity of the soul with Brahman the first of the above assertions is met.—Lastly, as regards the second it is to be remarked that the difference in essence of the soul and Brahman refers only to the Upâdhis, as is to be seen by the passage Chap. XII, 4, in which all qualities of Samsâra are denied to the soul "consisting of knowledge." Thus it is proved that the soul 110 does not originate nor perish (p. 644, 12—647, 5).