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[sū. 3. 3 33.
ADH. 15 ] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 645
entrusted with offices like composing the Veda and so on, "there is
abiding so long as the office lasts", owing to the non-cessation of the
works which have already begun to bear fruits and which brought about
the office. Hence, in their case too, when through retributive enjoy-
ment, the works which have begun to bear fruits and which brought
about the office become exhausted; and when the office (thereby)
comes to an end, there result the decay of all works at the time of
their separation from the final body and the (subsequent) attain-
ment (by them) of the path beginning with light.
Here ends the section entitled 'So long as the office lasts' (14).
Adhikaraṇa 15: The section entitled "The con-
ception of the Imperishable". (Sūtras 33-34)
SŪTRA 33
"BUT THERE IS THE COMPREHENSION (IN ALL BRAHMA-VIDYĀS)
OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF THE IMPERISHABLE, ON ACCOUNT OF
GENERALITY AND ON ACCOUNT OF BEING THAT, AS IN THE CASE OF
WHAT BELONGS TO THE UPASAD, THAT HAS BEEN SAID."
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
There should be the inclusion, under all meditations on Brahman,
of the conceptions of non-grossness and the rest, connected with
the Imperishable, stated in the text: "That, verily, O Gārgī, the
Brāhmaṇas call the Imperishable, non-gross, non-atomic, non-short"
(Bṛh. 3.8.8 ¹). Why? Because everywhere the Imperishable, viz.
Brahman, the chief, is the same; and because those attributes of non-
grossness and the rest form essential parts of an investigation into His
real nature; just as in the Jāmadagnya-ahīna ² sacrifice, in which the
Upasad ³ offerings are to consist of puraḍāś ⁴, the sacred formula read
¹ Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B.
² A sacrifice lasting four days, called 'Jāmadagnya' because offered by
Jāmadagni. Vide Tait. Saṁ. 7.1.9. See V.K. 3.3.33.
³ Name of a ceremony lasting several days and forming part of the Jyoti-
ṣṭoma sacrifice.
⁴ A puraḍāś is a sacrificial cake of ground rice, usually divided into pieces
and offered in one or more cups (or kapāla).