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[SŪ. 3. 4. 8
720 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 1 ]
to be known,—the view of the reverend “Bādarāyaṇa” is that “the
end of men arises from this” (Br. Sū. 3. 4. 1), “On account of that being
seen” from the texts: “He is the Lord of all” (Bṛh. 4. 4. 22 ¹), “Entered
within, the ruler of men” (Tait. Ār. 3.11. 1, 2 ²), “The ruler of all,
the controller of all” (Bṛh. 4.4.22 ³), “I ask about that Person taught
in the Upaniṣads” (Bṛh. 3.9.26 ⁴), “The word which all the Vedas
record” (Kaṭha 2.15 ⁵) and so on.
Vedānta-kaustubha
On this suggestion, (the author) replies:
The word “but” is for disposing of the prima facie view. The
view of Jaimini,—that by way of effecting the purification of what
is complementary to work, viz. the agent, knowledge, obtainable from
the Upaniṣads, is a subsidiary part of work,—is not correct. On
the contrary, “on account of the teaching of what is superior” to the
individual soul, the agent, possessed of the stated marks, i.e. as the
Highest Person,—the soul of all, free by nature from all faults,
an abode of a mass of auspicious qualities, possessed of natural,
infinite and inauspicious powers, the cause of the world, the Lord of
matter and soul and the Lord of all,—is taught as the object of
knowledge, as He alone is established as the object to be known by
the Vedāntas, the end of men arises from knowledge,—“such” is
the view of the reverend “Bādarāyaṇa”. Why? “On account of
that being seen,” i.e. because texts are found which establish “that”,
viz. the Highest Self alone, the object to be known, i.e. a multitude
of texts are found establishing Him, such as: “All this has that for
its self” (Chānd. 6.8.7, etc.), “Higher than the imperishable, the
high” (Muṇḍ. 2.1.2), “Free from sins, ageless, deathless, griefless,
without hunger, without thirst, having true desires, having true
resolves” (Chānd. 8.7.1, 3), “He who is omniscient, all-knowing”
(Muṇḍ. 1.1.9; 2.2.7), “He consists of infinite auspicious qualities.—
He is possessed of might, power, lordship and supreme knowledge”
(V.P. 6.5.84 ⁶), “Supreme is his power, declared to be of various kinds,
and natural is the operation of his knowledge and might” (Śvet. 6.8),
“He is the cause, the lord of the lord of the sense-organs” (Śvet. 6.9),
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¹ R. ² P. 181. Not quoted by others.
³ Op. cit. ⁴ Op. cit.
⁵ Op. cit. ⁶ P. 837.