The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s3.t1.3

c8.s3.t1.3

The position of the soul as servant with God as its master can be conceived in the following way: God (îçvara) by virtue of his connection with unsurpassable (niratiçaya) Upâdhis exercises authority over the soul which is affected only by imperfect (nihîna) Upâdhis (p. 688, 1; our author contents himself here with the remark that the whole relationship depends on the Upâdhis; for greater detail see chap. XX, 3, e, above p. 271).—The soul is further conceived as a part of God; *e. g.* by the simile of the Fire and the sparks (p. 685, 6; cf. above p. 131); further in the passage of the Rigveda X, 90, 3 (cf. chap. XI, 3):