Note 152 — SA@NKARA'S INTRODUCTION (continued 2)

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The question is to what passage the 'rûpopanyâsât' of the Sûtra refers.—According to the opinion set forth first it refers to Mu. Up. II, 1, 4 ff.—But, according to the second view, II, 1, 4 to II, 1, 9, cannot refer to the source of all beings, i.e. the highest Self, because that entire passage describes the creation, the inner Self of which is not the highest Self but Prajâpati, i.e. the Hiranyagarbha or Sûtrâtman of the later Vedânta, who is himself an 'effect,' and who is called the inner Self, because he is the breath of life (prâna) in everything.—Hence the Sûtra must be connected with another passage, and that passage is found in II, 1, 10, where it is said that the Person (i.e. the highest Self) is all this, &c.