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Updated: June 11, 2025
Badarayana is of opinion that, in the same way as the condition of householdership, those other conditions of life also are obligatory; since in the section beginning 'there are three branches of sacred duty' all the three conditions of life are equally referred to, with a view to glorifying him who is firmly grounded in Brahman.
Next the teacher Badarayana determines the question by propounding his own view. The teacher Badarayana is of opinion that even thus, i.e. although the text declares the soul to have mere intelligence for its essential nature, all the same the previously stated attributes, viz. freedom from all sin, and so on, are not to be excluded.
Sri Ramakrishna, who passed from this earth life at Cossipore, in 1886, was a disciple of the Vedanta system, as founded by Vyasa, or by Badarayana, authorities failing to agree as to which of these traditional sages of India founded the Vedantic system of religion or philosophy.
There are therefore no conditions of life in which men are bound to observe chastity. This is the opinion of the teacher Jaimini. It is to be accomplished, Badarayana holds, on account of scriptural statement of equality.
The conclusion therefore is that the Vasus, and so on, are not qualified for meditations on the Vasus and other classes of deities. The Reverend Badarayana thinks that the Adityas, Vasus, and so on, are also qualified for meditations on divinities.
Next the Reverend Badarayana decides this point by the declaration of his own view. 'For this reason, i.e. for the reason that the text refers to the wish of the Released, the Reverend Badarayana is of opinion that the Released may, at his liking, be with or without a body. This satisfies both kinds of texts.
Badarayana, therefore, holds that knowledge has an independent fruit of its own. In all those texts there is not the slightest trace of any reference to the wretched individual soul, as insignificant and weak as a tiny glow-worm, implicated in Nescience and all the other evils of finite existence.
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