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Updated: June 26, 2025
And custom confirms the same conclusion; for good men shun those Naishthikas who have lapsed, even after they have performed prayaskittas, and do not impart to them the knowledge of Brahman, The conclusion, therefore, is that such men are not qualified for knowing Brahman. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'him who has become that.
Scripture moreover states that the arteries and rays are at all times mutually connected: 'As a very long highway goes to two villages, so the rays of the sun go to both worlds, to this one and to the other. Up. As thus there are rays at night also, the souls of those who know reach Brahman by way of the rays only. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the following up the rays.
The latter state may be due to misfortune; but he who can should be within an asrama, which state is the more holy and beneficial one. This follows from inference only, i.e. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'widowers. The doubt here arises whether those also who have fallen from the state of life of a Naishthika, Vaikhanasa or Parivrajaka are qualified for the knowledge of Brahman or not.
Where, in the beginning, the text refers to 'the time when, the word 'time' must be understood to denote the divine beings ruling time, since Fire and the rest cannot be time. What the Bha. Up. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the southern progress. On the path beginning with light, that being known.
That mantras of this kind and Brahmana passages relative to the Pravargya and the like are placed at the beginning of Upanishads is owing to their having, like the latter, to be studied in the forest. Herewith terminates the adhikarana of 'piercing and the like. This has been explained. Up.
Here terminates the adhikarana of 'work, remembrance, text, and injunction. With regard to a person lying in a swoon or stunned, the question arises whether that state of swoon is one of the other states, viz. deep sleep and so on, or whether it is a special condition of its own. The former alternative must be accepted.
Here terminates the adhikarana of 'what is connected with constituent elements of the sacrifice. There is pre-eminence of plenitude, as in the case of the sacrifice; for thus Scripture shows. Up.
There I lie asleep in every Kalpa, and as I am sleeping there springs from my navel a lotus, and in that lotus there is born the Four-faced one, and I tell him "Do thou, Great-minded one, create all beings." Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the deities. So far it has been proved that also the gods, and so on, are qualified for the knowledge of Brahman.
That the texts under discussion have an injunctive purport also follows from the fact that they contain verbal forms denoting becoming or origination 'he is to meditate' and the like; for all such forms have injunctive force. All these texts therefore are meant to enjoin special forms of meditation. Here terminates the adhikarana of mere glorification.
Here terminates the adhikarana of 'denotation of the world. The names with which the king addresses the sleeper are Great one, clad in white raiment, Soma, king. The Sru. Pra. comments as follows: Great one; because according to Sruti Prana is the oldest and best. Clad in white raiment; because Sruti says that water is the raiment of Prana; and elsewhere, that what is white belongs to water.
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