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Hiranyagarbha!
 
And why? Only because the
system demands it, the system which teaches
that those who know the highest Brahman
become on their death one with it, without
having to resort to another place". The
remarks made in the preceding paragraph as
well as those made in an earlier stage must be
enough to show that the system is older than
Sankara and that he was only an interpreter-
not the originator-of it. In the second place,
Dr. Thibaut is mistaken in saying that "those
who ascend by the path of the gods to the
world of Brahman go there to remain for ever
in some blissful state. For, in commenting on
Sutra 10 (sutra 9, according to Ramanuja) of
the third pada of the Fourth Adhyaya,
" कार्यात्यये तदध्यक्षेण सहात: परमभिधानात् "On the passing
into destruction of the effected world of
brahman, the souls go together with its ruler to
what is higher than that world; for so it is
declared in the Sruti."
the Sruti." Both Sankara and
Ramanuja agree in interpreting "" to
mean upon the passing into destruction of the
effected world of Brahman." Ramanuja states
distinctly that the world of Brahman referred