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672 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA. [SŪ. 3. 3 41.
ADH. 18 ]
are to be inserted regularly in sacrificial acts as their subordinate
parts. Further, as the fruit of the injunction of meditation is different
from that of sacrificial acts, there is no fixed rule with regard
to the meditations on that,—so says (the author): "For different",
i e. because "the fruit" of the injunction of meditation, consisting
in "non-obstruction", is declared by Scripture to be "different"
from the fruit of sacrificial works. The sense is that the fruit of
one work is obstructed by the fruit of another stronger work; the
fruit of the injunction of meditation is the opposite of that. In
accordance with the text: "Both perform with it, he who knows this
thus and he who does not know thus Diverse, however, are knowledge
and non-knowledge What only one does with knowledge, with faith,
with the mystic doctrine, that only becomes more potent" (Chānd
1 1.10), 'with it', i.e. with the Om-kara, forsooth, both perform
sacrificial acts. Though 'he who knows' 'this', i e the syllable, Om,
'thus', i e. as possessed of the attributes of being the finest essence and
so on, and 'he who does not know', are both equal in point of being
agents, yet there is a difference in the result on account of knowledge
and non-knowledge,—this is what the text designates. Here 'know-
ledge' is 'diverse', i e. different from 'non-knowledge' That work
which one does 'with knowledge', 'with faith', 'with the mystic
doctrine', i.e. with the meditation on the Mystic Deity, 'becomes
more potent',—this is the sense. Hence, it is established that just
as the text: "For one desiring cattle he should fetch water in a milking-
vessel" establishes a (special) fruit of the (use of) the milking-vessel,
having the fetching of water as its abode ¹,—here as the text
can very well be so interpreted, the milking-vessel is not a subordinate
part of sacrificial acts,—so the meditations, founded on the subsidiary
elements of sacrificial acts are to be included in those acts optionally.
Here ends the section entitled "Non-restriction with regard to
the specifying of that" (18).
1 That is, the quality of being made of the parṇa-wood cannot have a
special result of its own, since it is only a quality and not an act and must, as
such, abide in a substratum to be connected with any result. But the milking-
vessel may have a special fruit, since it has an act, viz. the fetching of water,
as its abode. Vide Ś.B. 3.3.42, p. 826.