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[sū. 3. 3. 31.
ADH. 13 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 641
vidyā 1, Vaiśvānara-vidyā 2 and the rest. Hence the doubt is as to
whether the path belongs only to those who are possessed of the
Upakosala-vidyā and the rest, or to all those who possess the Brahma-
vidyā. With regard to it, the prima facie view is as follows: It is
proper that the path should belong only to those who are possessed of
the vidyās in which it is mentioned, on account of the force of the
general subject-matter, and not to others,—so is the restriction.
With regard to it, we reply: "No restriction", i.e. there is no
restriction that the path belongs only to those who possess the vidyās
in which it is mentioned, but this path is open to all those who possess
Brahma-vidyā.
If it be objected that in that case, there will result contradiction
with the general subject-matter, we say: "non-contradiction", since
the general subject-matter is set aside by text 3. Whence is this
known? "From word and inference," i.e. from Scripture and Smṛti,
viz. from the scriptural texts: "Those who know this thus and those
who worship faith and truth in the forest, they pass over to light"
(Bṛh. 6.2.15) and so on; and from the Smṛti passage: "Fire, light, the
day, the bright fortnight, the six months of the northern progress of
the sun,—departing through these those who know Brahman go to
Brahman" (Gītā 8.24) and so on. Here having stated that those who
are devoted to the five fires and who know this heaven-world and the
similar designations of water, fire, air, the sun, the quarters, the moon, lightning,
thunder, space, law, truth, mankind, and soul.
There is a different Madhu-vidyā, or the representation of the sun as the
honey extracted from all the Vedas in the Chāndogya (Chānd. 3.1–3.11). For
detailed account, vide V.K. 1.3.33, footnote 1, p. 335.
1 Śāṇḍilya-vidyā or the doctrine taught by Śāṇḍilya. Vide Bṛh. 5.6; Śat.
Br. 10.6.3; Chānd. 3.14. For detailed account vide V.K. 3.3.19.
2 Vaiśvānara-vidyā or the doctrine of the Universal Soul taught to six
Brāhmaṇas, Prācīnaśāla and the rest, by King Aśvapati, vide Chānd. 5.11–5.18.
The story begins: Six great house-holders, Prācīnaśāla and the rest assembled
and pondered: '"Who is our Soul? Who is Brahman?"' Unable to decide,
they approached Uddālaka Āruṇi with a view to learning about the Vaiśvānara
Ātman or the Universal Soul from him. The latter directed them to King
Aśvapati. Aśvapati asked each of the six, '"Whom do you reverence as the
Universal Soul?"' They successively answered: the heaven, the sun, the wind,
the ether, water and the earth. Thereupon Aśvapati taught them that the Uni-
versal Soul is not thus separate, i.e. either the heaven, or the sun, etc., but is
the Universal Being, comprehending everything. Vide V.K. 1.2.25; 3.3.55.
3 Vide Pū. Mī. Sū. 3.3.14.