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

[SŪ. 4. 3. 14.
ADH 5.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 853
on the effected Brahman, or that it leads only those who meditate
on the Highest Brahman. Why ? "On account of fault in both
ways." That is, because on the view of Bādari that it leads only
those who meditate on the effected Brahman, the following scriptural
text will come to be contradicted: "This serene being, having arisen
from the body, having attained the form of highest light is completed
in his own form" (Chānd. 8.12.3), and because on the view of Jaimini
that it leads only those who meditate on the Highest Brahman, another
scriptural text will come to be contradicted, viz. the one indicating
that the knowers of the five fires proceed through the path beginning
with light. "Those who know thus and those who meditate on faith
and truth in the forest reach light" (Chānd. 5.10.1). Hence it leads
the two kinds of worshippers—this the author says: "And he whose
intention is that". In accordance with the scriptural texts: "Just
as the intention a man has in this world, so alone does he become on
departing" (Chānd. 3.14.1), "Just as one meditates on Him, so alone
does one become" (Mudg. 3 ¹), one who aims at attaining the Highest
Brahman attains Him ; while, one who aims at attaining the individual
soul, unconnected with matter and having the Highest Brahman as
its essence, first attains such a soul and then the Highest Soul.
COMPARISON
Śaṃkara
Having completed the above topic by taking Bādari as repre-
senting the correct conclusion and Jaimini the opponent's view,
Śaṃkara begins a new adhikaraṇa here, concerned with the question
as to whether those who meditate on symbols too are led to (the
qualified) Brahman. He reads "adoṣāt" instead of "doṣāt". Hence
the sūtra: "(The troupe of conducting divinities) leads those who do
not depend on symbols, so Bādarāyaṇa (thinks), since there is no
fault (in speaking) in two ways, and he whose thought is that". "That
is, it has been said above ² that all those who meditate go to the
world of Brahman, while here an exception is made. But these two
different designations involve no contradiction in accordance with
the maxim of 'As you sow, so you reap'.³ This is sūtra 15 in Śaṃkara's
commentary.
¹ P. 384, lines 7–9. ² Ś.B. 3.3.31. ³ Ś.B. 3.4.15, pp. 965-966.