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[sū. 3. 3. 42
ADH. 19 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 675
here. “That has been said” in the section treating of the divinities :
“Diverse, forsooth, are the divinities owing to different conceptions”.
Hence it is established that during the meditation on an attribute,
the meditation on the small ether in that particular form, qualified by
that particular attribute, is to be repeated
Here ends the section entitled “Offering” (19).
COMPARISON
Śaṁkara and Bhāskara
This is sūtra 42 in Śaṁkara’s commentary Śaṁkara and Bhās-
kara too take it to be forming an adhikaraṇa by itself, though concerned
with an entirely different topic. In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka (Bṛh. 1 5 21),
the vital-breath is said to be the best among the organs of the body,
and the air to be the best among the gods. Similarly, in the Chān-
dogya (Chānd. 4.3.1), the air is said to be the general absorber of the
gods, and (Chānd. 4.3.3) the vital-breath is said to be the general
absorber of the organs of the body. Here the question is as to whether
the air and the vital-breath are to be conceived as separate or not.
The prima facie view is that they are not to be conceived as separate,
since they do not differ in their true nature. But the real view is that
although they are fundamentally one, yet they are to be meditated
on separately, since the texts teach them separately. Hence the
vidyās here are not the same, but there are two separate vidyās. The
parallel instance cited from the Taittirīya-saṁhitā and the maxim
are the same as those cited by Nimbārka. Thus the sūtra : “As in
the case of offering (the air and the vital-breath are to be conceived
separately), that has been said”.¹
Baladeva
This is sūtra 44 in his commentary. He too takes it as an adhi-
karaṇa by itself, but concerned with an entirely different topic, viz.
the grace of the spiritual preceptor. Hence the sūtra: “Like the
giving (of knowledge by the preceptor) alone that has been said”.
That is, salvation depends upon the extent the preceptor is pleased
¹ Ś.B. 3.3.43, pp. 827–830; Bh. B. 3.3.42 (written as 3.3.43), p. 192.