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As the Bhagavata doctrine thus teaches things opposed to Scripture, its authoritativeness cannot be admitted. Against these objections the next Sutra declares itself. The 'or' sets aside the view previously maintained. If Sankarshana, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha are of the nature of the highest Brahman, then truly there can be no objection to a body of doctrine which sets forth this relation.
Embracing Pradyumna, Shamva, Nishatha, Charudeshna, Gada, Aniruddha and Bhanu, and obtaining the leave of all the elderly men, Janardana entered the apartments of Rukmini." Vaisampayana said, "Then Maya Danava addressed Arjuna, that foremost of successful warriors, saying, 'I now go with thy leave, but shall come back soon. This was placed in the mansion of Vrishaparva ever devoted to truth.
By the 'vibhava' we have to understand the aggregate of beings, such as Rama, Krishna, &c., in whom the highest Being becomes manifest; by the 'vyuha' the fourfold arrangement or division of the highest Reality, as Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha; by the 'Subtle' the highest Brahman itself, in so far as it has for its body the mere aggregate of the six qualities as which it is called 'Vasudeva. Compare on this point the Paushkara, 'That body of doctrine through which, by means of works based on knowledge, one fully attains to the imperishable highest Brahman, called Vasudeva, and so on, Sankarshana, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha are thus mere bodily forms which the highest Brahman voluntarily assumes.
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