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In the case of those persons, therefore, the effects of the works which gave rise to their office continue to exist as long as the office itself, and hence they do not after death enter on the path beginning with light. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'passing away.
This is declared in the Sankarshana, 'The divinities are different on account of separation. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'offerings. The Taittiriyaka contains another daharavidya, 'The thousand-headed god, the all-eyed one, &c. Up.
As the quality, inhering in all things, of being ruled by the highest Self, is eternal and definitely fixed by being connected with his essential nature, it is an unavoidable conclusion that the rule of the soul and of the divinities over the organs depends on the will of the highest Self. Up. Gi. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the rule of Fire and the rest.
For there is a special statement, i.e. the text says that when the soul has become rice or grain or the like, the passing out of that stage is beset with difficulties. From this we infer that as there is no such statement concerning the earlier stages, the soul stays at each of them for a short time only. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the not very long time.
Hence calmness of mind and the rest are to be aimed at and practised by householders also. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'calmness' and so on. And there is permission of all food in the case of danger of life; on account of this being seen. In the meditation on prana, according to the Vajasaneyins and the Chandogas, there is a statement as to all food being allowed to him who knows the prana.
The meaning of the entire text is as follows just as the lump of salt has throughout one and the same taste, while other sapid things such as mangoes and other fruit have different tastes in their different parts, rind and so on; so the soul is throughout of the nature of knowledge or self-illuminedness. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'that which is like Brahman.
The only leader from lightning up to Brahman is the not-human person connected with lightning; for the text states this directly. Varuna, Indra, and Prajapati take part in the work in so far only as they may assist the person connected with lightning. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the conductors. The following question now presents itself for consideration.
Here finishes the adhikarana of 'the refutation of the Yoga. Your doctrine, he says, as to the world being an effect of Brahman which you attempted to prove by a refutation of the Sankhya Smriti shows itself to be irrational for the following reason.
The Udgitha and the rest therefore are to be viewed under the aspect of Aditya and so on. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the ideas of Aditya and so on. Sitting; on account of possibility. A question now arises as to the way in which it has to be carried on.
Here finishes the adhikarana of 'what is known everywhere. Well then, if the highest Self is not an enjoyer, we must conclude that wherever fruition is referred to, the embodied soul only is meant! Of this view the next adhikarana disposes. The individual soul, the Purvapakshin maintains; for all enjoyment presupposes works, and works belong to the individual soul only.
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