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[SŪ. 3. 3. 50.
690 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 20.]
Vedānta-kaustubha
"On account of what is subsequent" to the section concerned
with the fires piled up by the mind and so on, viz. the section concerned
with world which is filled, beginning "This world, verily, is piled up by
the fire (Śat. Br. 10 5 4, 1), and on account of the preceding section,—
implied by the term "and" (in the sūtra)—, beginning. "This orb
that shines" (Sat. Br. 10 5 2, 1), the "text", i.e. the section coming
between them, is "of that kind", i.e. concerned with an injunction
about meditation. That is, on account of its association with a pre-
ceding and a subsequent sections which have meditation for their
primary topic, here too there is the primacy of meditation,—that is
what it comes to.
To this objection, viz. If in this section, there be the primacy
of meditation, then what is the sense in beginning with action?—
(the author) replies "On account of majority". That is, "on account
of the majority" or numerosity of the details of the fire built up by
action to be accomplished (mentally) in the case of the fires which
are the subsidiary parts of meditation, there is the "connection",
i.e. setting forth, of the fires, the subsidiary parts of meditation,
after the fires which are subsidiary parts of action. Hence it is
established that the fires piled up by the mind and the rest are
subsidiary parts of a sacrifice consisting in meditation.
Here ends the section entitled "The majority of indicatory
marks" (20).
COMPARISON
Baladeva
This is sūtra 54 in his commentary. He takes it as forming an
adhikaraṇa by itself concerned with an entirely different topic, viz.
the grace of the Lord. The prima facie view is that it cannot be said
that the direct vision of the Lord alone, attainable through devotion 1,
in the cause of salvation, for a text in the Mundaka (Muṇḍ. 3.2 3 2)
shows that the vision of the Lord depends on the grace of the Lord.
1 Vide G.B. 3.3.49 above.
2 "Nāyamātmā pravacanena labhyaḥ", etc.