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of Sankara's
interpretation of the Sutras of
Vyasa, ii, 2, 12-14. He here says that "this
interpretation of the purport of the entire
chapter is not impossibly right." But he
proceeds to say that "the purport of the clause
may simply be that the soul and vital spirits do
not go anywhere else, i. e., do not enter a new
body, but are united, somehow or other, with
Brahman,-not as Sankara understands it, "that
his vital spirits do not pass out," i. e., do not
ascend to the world of Brahman. That San-
kara's interpretation is the correct one is demons-
trated by the circumstance pointed out in iii, 2, ii,
viz., that on attaining to the knowledge of
Brahman, his pranas get dissolved here,
"çầa ¤¤aàîqzà "-Finally, Dr. Thibaut points
to what he calls "a new difficulty" in connec-
tion with the slokas quoted in sections 8 and 9.
We have already stated the Advaitic view
regarding prakarana (context) as determining the
interpretation of passages in accordance with the
principle of ekavakyata. It is true, therefore,-
as Dr. Thibaut says-that "the slokas have
manifestly to be connected with what is said in
the latter half of 6 about the owner of the para
of Sankara's
interpretation of the Sutras of
Vyasa, ii, 2, 12-14. He here says that "this
interpretation of the purport of the entire
chapter is not impossibly right." But he
proceeds to say that "the purport of the clause
may simply be that the soul and vital spirits do
not go anywhere else, i. e., do not enter a new
body, but are united, somehow or other, with
Brahman,-not as Sankara understands it, "that
his vital spirits do not pass out," i. e., do not
ascend to the world of Brahman. That San-
kara's interpretation is the correct one is demons-
trated by the circumstance pointed out in iii, 2, ii,
viz., that on attaining to the knowledge of
Brahman, his pranas get dissolved here,
"çầa ¤¤aàîqzà "-Finally, Dr. Thibaut points
to what he calls "a new difficulty" in connec-
tion with the slokas quoted in sections 8 and 9.
We have already stated the Advaitic view
regarding prakarana (context) as determining the
interpretation of passages in accordance with the
principle of ekavakyata. It is true, therefore,-
as Dr. Thibaut says-that "the slokas have
manifestly to be connected with what is said in
the latter half of 6 about the owner of the para