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[SŪ. 2. 2. 37.
376 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 7.]
Adhikaraṇa 7: The section entitled "Paśupati".
(Sūtras 37-41)
SŪTRA 37
"(THE DOCTRINE) OF THE LORD (IS UNTENABLE), ON ACCOUNT OF
INCONSISTENCY."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
The Pāśupata doctrine is to be rejected, because it is opposed to
the Veda, which establishes a non-distinct efficient and material cause;
and because it initiates a false faith.
Vedānta-kaustubha
Now, the Pāśupata doctrine is being disposed of.
The maintainers of doctrines opposed to the Veda have been
refuted above. The Māheśvaras, too, are such. They are of four
kinds, viz. Kāpālas, Kālāmukhas, Pāśupatas and Śaivas. The
basis of their doctrines is the treatise composed by Paśupati.
The 'Pañcādhyāyī' ¹ is celebrated to be composed by the great Lord
Paśupati Himself. Five categories are mentioned there, viz. cause,
effect, concentrated meditation, injunction, and end of suffering.²
The cause is pradhāna and the Lord. Among them, pradhāna is
supposed to be the material cause, the Lord the efficient cause. The
effect is mahat and the rest. Concentrated meditation is stated in
the passage; "Through the meditation on the Oṃ-kāra once, one
should hold (one's self)". Injunction consists in secret rituals like
three ablutions and the rest The end of suffering is salvation.
Among these, the Pāśupatas and the Kāpālas hold that during
its state of bondage, the soul becomes (non-sentient) like a stone.
And the Śaivas hold that the freed soul is consciousness. They have
minor treatises of their own, designating their mutual differences.
Those Māheśvaras, with their intelligence deluded by the Māyā
of the Lord, maintain and practise, just as they like—as the means
to the highest end—what is "opposed" to the Veda and not practised
by the wise. As the Kāpālas say: "He who knows the six mudrās,
he who is versed in the supreme mudrā, he attains nirvāṇa by
¹ Or having five chapters.
² Kāraṇa, Kāryya, Yoga, Vidhi, Duḥkhānta.