वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[sū. 3. 3. 43.
ADH. 20.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 677
Vedānta-kaustubha
Now (the author) points out that the fires too, that are going
to be designated now, are not to be taken as subsidiary parts of
sacrificial acts, just as the meditations founded on the subsidiary
elements of sacrificial acts are not to be taken as such.
Having begun: "Verily, in the beginning, this was not existent,
not even non-existent" (Śat. Br. 10 5 3, 1 1), having described the
appearance of the mind, and having referred to the mind, by pointing
out that that mind saw the fires belonging to itself 2, thus: "It saw
the thirty-six thousand fires, the suns, belonging to itself, made of
the mind, piled up by the mind. By the mind alone they were placed,
by the mind they were piled up, by the mind the cups were taken in
them, by the mind they praised, by the mind they recited. Whatever
work is done in a sacrifice" (Śat. Br. 10 5 3, 3 3) and so on, the Vāja-
saneyins, thus, record imaginary fires, piled up by the mind and
so on, viz piled up by speech, piled up by the eye, piled up by
action, piled up by fire,4 and so on, in the "Mystery of Fire".5 The
life of a person lasts a hundred years. It consists of thirty-six
thousand days and nights. In the course of a single day and
night, many mental modes arise, and they are taken to be one
because they have arisen in the course of the same day and night.
Thus, there are thirty-six thousand mental modes in the course of
thirty-six thousand days and nights, and they are demonstrated as
the bricks which are subsidiary parts of sacrifices, and as elemental
fires, by the text: "Thirty-six thousands" (Śat Br. 10 5.3, 1) and so
on. Among these, those which are 'piled up', i.e. built, by the mind
are the 'mind-piled'. Similarly, the meaning of the texts 'breath-
piled' and so on are to be understood as the case may be.
Here the doubt is as to whether these fires, piled up by the mind
and so on are subsidiary parts of a sacrifice consisting in actual action,
they being mentioned in a section concerned with sacrificial acts;
or whether they are subsidiary parts of a sacrifice consisting only in
meditation.
1 P. 796, line 1.
2 Quotation mark wrong (in the text).
3 P. 796, lines 4-6.
4 Quotation mark wrong (in the text).
5 The name of the tenth book of the Śat. Br.