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This constant moving about on the part of ignorant creatures on the surface, as it were, of the small ether abiding within as their inward Ruler, proves that small ether to be the highest Brahman. That the highest Brahman abides within as the inner Self of creatures which dwell in it and are ruled by it, we are told in other texts also, so e.g. in the Antaryamin-brahmana. Up.
That the highest Brahman is embodied in all beings and constitutes their Self, is directly stated in the antaryamin-brahmana, 'He who abiding in the earth; abiding in water; abiding in fire, &c. &c. Up. This point is taken up by the next Sutra. The 'but' has an asseverative sense.
Being the means for bringing about the meditation and the goal of meditation, that same Self is the highest object to be attained; hence the text says 'Higher than the Person there is nothing that is the goal, the highest road. Analogously scripture, in the antaryamin-Brahmana, at first declares that the highest Self within witnesses and rules everything, and thereupon negatives the existence of any further ruling principle 'There is no other seer but he, &c.
And that it is fundamentally the highest Self as constituting the inner Self of Vayu and other deities which is pleased by offerings, and bestows rewards for them is declared by texts such as 'Offerings and pious works, all this he bears who is the nave of the Universe. Up. Similarly in the antaryamin-brahmana, 'He who dwells in Vayu, of whom Vayu is the body'; 'He who dwells in Agni, &c.
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