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[SŪ. 3. 4. 32.
ADH. 8.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 749
Adhikaraṇa 8: The section entitled "Being
enjoined". (Sūtras 32-35)
SŪTRA 32
"AND ON ACCOUNT OF BEING ENJOINED, THE WORK INCUMBENT
ON THE STAGES OF LIFE TOO"
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
Sacrifices and the rest, which are subsidiary parts of knowledge,
are to be performed also by one, who does not desire for salvation,
as the duties incumbent on one's stages of life, "on account of being
enjoined" in the passage: "He performs the Agni-hotra sacrifice as
long as he lives".¹
Vedānta-kaustubha
Under the aphorism: "And dependence on all, in accordance with
the scriptural text about sacrifice" (Br. Sū. 3.4.26) it has been said
that works like sacrifices and the rest are subsidiary parts of the
knowledge of Brahman. After that, two relevant problems have
been considered. Now the question is being considered as to whether,
for the sake of gaining prosperity, works like sacrifices and the rest
are to be performed even by one, who is not desirous of salvation, as
the duties incumbent on one's stages of life.
On the doubt, viz. the works, mentioned in the text: "Him the
Brāhmaṇas desire to know by the recitation of the Veda, by sacrifice"
(Bṛh. 4.4.22) and so on, have been accepted previously as auxiliaries
to the means to salvation. Do they incur on the part of one who
does not desire for salvation, but wishes to fulfill the duties of his
stage of life merely, or not? The prima facie view is that sacrifices
and the rest, relating to a definite object, cannot be supposed to be
mere duties incumbent on the stages of life, and so they do not incur
on his part,—
We reply: "The work incumbent on the stages of life too". The
works like sacrifice, charity and so on, which are mentioned in Scrip-
ture as auxiliaries to knowledge, are "works incumbent on the stages
1 Ś, R, Śk.