[Footnote 170: If the individual soul were meant by the abode of heaven, earth, &c., the statement regarding I/s/vara made in the passage about the two birds would be altogether abrupt, and on that ground objectionable. The same difficulty does not present itself with regard to the abrupt mention of the individual soul which is well known to everybody, and to which therefore casual allusions may be made.--I subjoin Ananda Giri's commentary on the entire passage: Jivasyopadhyaikyenavivakshitatvat tadj/n/anezpi sarvaj/n/anasiddhes tasyayatanatvadyabhave hetvantara/m/ va/k/yam ity a/s/a@nkya sutre/n/a pariharati kuta/sk/etyadina. Tad vya/k/ash/t/e dyubhvaditi. Nirde/s/am eva dar/s/ayati tayor iti. Vibhaktyartham aha tabhya/m/ /k/eti. Sthitye/s/varasyadanaj jivasa/m/grahezpi katham i/s/varasyaiva vi/s/vayatanatva/m/ tadaha yaditi. I/s/varasyayanatvenaprak/ri/tatve jivap/ri/thakkathananupapattir ity uktam eva vyatirekadvaraha anyatheti. Jivasyayatanatvenaprak/ri/tatve tulyanupapattir iti /s/a@nkate nanviti. Tasyaikyartha/m/ lokasiddhasyanuvadatvan naivam ity aha neti. Jivasyapurvatvabhavenapratipadyatvam eva praka/t/ayati kshetraj/n/o hiti. I/s/varasyapi lokavadisiddhatvad apratipadyatety a/s/a@nkyaha i/s/varas tv iti.] [Footnote 171: As might be the prima facie conclusion from the particle 'but' introducing the sentence 'but he in reality,' &c.] [Footnote 172: It being maintained that the passage referred to is to be viewed in connexion with the general subject-matter of the preceding past of the chapter.] [Footnote 173: And would thus involve a violation of a fundamental principle of the Mima/m/sa.] [Footnote 174: A remark directed against the possible attempt to explain the passage last quoted as referring to the embodied soul.] [Footnote 175: Pi/nd/a/h/ sthulo deha/h/, pra/n/a/h/ sutratma. Ananda Giri.-The lower Brahman (hira/n/yagarbha on sutratman) is the vital principle (pra/n/a) in all creatures.] [Footnote 176: Sa/m/yagdar/s/ana, i.e. complete seeing or intuition; the same term which in other places--where it is not requisite to insist on the idea of 'seeing' in contradistinction from 'reflecting' or 'meditating'--is rendered by perfect knowledge.] [Footnote 177: Translated above by 'of the shape of the individual soul.'] [Footnote 178: Pa/n/ini III, 3, 77, 'murtta/m/ ghana/h/.'] [Footnote 179: So that the interpretation of the purvapakshin cannot be objected to on the ground of its involving the comparison of a thing to itself.] [Footnote 180: So that no objection can be raised on the ground that heaven and earth cannot be contained in the small ether of the heart.]