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162' VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [SŪ. 1. 3. 13.
ADH. 4.]
This very world of the Supreme Brahman is declared as the object
to be attained by the wise by another Upaniṣad of the same Athar-
vanas, beginning "‘The place which all the Vedas record, that which
all the austerities declare, wishing what people practise chastity, that
place I tell you in brief’" (Kaṭha 2.15), and continuing ‘That is the
best support, that is the supreme support. By knowing that support,
one rejoices in the world of Brahman’ (Kaṭha 2.17). That very
Upaniṣad declares the unattainableness of this (world of Brahman)
by the non-knower, and its attainableness by the knower, as well as
its difference from mundane existence in the passages ‘But he who
has not understanding, who is inattentive, and ever impure, does not
reach that place, and goes to transmigratory existence. But he who
has understanding, who is attentive and ever pure, reaches that
place, whence he is not born again. A man, however, who has under-
standing as his charioteer, the mind as the rein, reaches the end of the
journey, that highest place of Viṣṇu’ (Kaṭha 3.7–9). In the Śānti-
parva, it is said in the beginning of the Hārita-gītā ‘Yudhiṣṭhira said:
"A man of what nature, of what conduct, of what knowledge,
of what resort, attains the place of Brahman, that is higher than
prakṛti and eternal?" Bhīṣma said. "He who is engaged in the
religious duties in connection with salvation, who is abstemious, who
has conquered the senses, attains the supreme place that is higher
than prakṛti and eternal"’ (Mahā. 12.9968-9969).¹ From such
question and answer by the wisest men, the superiority of the world
of Brahman—the object of enquiry—to prakṛti, its attainableness
only through the religious duties in connection with salvation, and its
eternity, are established. Hence, it is established that the object
which one sees is Brahman, lying in the city, and higher than prakṛti,
in its effected and in its causal conditions.
Here ends the section entitled ‘One sees’ (4).
COMPARISON
Śaṁkara
Interpretation different, viz. according to him, the question is
whether the higher or the lower Brahman is meant here, and not
¹ P. 716, lines 22-23, vol 3.