Śaṅkaraon Brahma Sūtra 4.4.12

The teacher Badardya;/a, again, thinks that for this reason, i.e. because scripture contains indications of both kinds, the proper conclusion is that the released person exists in both ' Manifold ness of the Self is mentioned in a vidya referring to the highest Brahman;, but its introduction there is not due to the wish of teaching something about that state, but merely of, rhetorically, glorifying it. We, therefore, are entitled to view that passage as teaching something about him who possesses the lower knowledge. —; conditions. When he wishes to have a body, he appears with one ; when he wishes to be disembodied, he is without — one. For he has various wishes, and all his wishes arc realised. ‘As in the case of the twelve days* sacrifice.* As the soma sacrifice extending over twelve days may be viewed either as a sattra or as an ahina sacrifice, because both alternatives are indicated by scriptural passages ^ ; so it is here also.