The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s7.t2.5.4
The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c8.s7.t2.5.4
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c8.s7.t2.5.4
and “where a plurality as it were exists, one sees “the other,” as the scripture (Brih. 4, 5, 15) says. True suspension of cognition can be effected by the great distance of the objects but only where the subject is limited, which is not the case with the soul, if the Upâdhis are left out of account (p. 795, 2); if however a removal of the Upâdhis is meant it is just this release from them of which we are speaking (p. 795, 5). We do not maintain either that veins, pericardium and Brahman are to be regarded as possessed of equal rights; for the two first do not come in question at all (p. 795, 8); the important thing is that Brahman is unchangeably the place of deep sleep, and that the Brahmanhood of the soul is adhered to, and a release in deep sleep from the activity of the waking and dream states (p. 795, 12).