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Updated: June 29, 2025
The general Conclusion is that the Vedanta-texts, whether referring to numbers or not, nowhere set forth the categories established in Kapila's system. Here the philosopher who holds the Pradhana to be the general cause comes forward with another objection.
In the case of the passage 'Higher than the intellect is the Great Self, we conclude from the co-ordination of 'the Great' with the Self that what the text means is not the 'Great' principle of the Sankhyas; analogously we conclude that the 'Unevolved, which is said to be higher than the Self, cannot be the Pradhana of Kapila's system.
Now, as these Rishis did not see truth in the way of Kapila, we conclude that Kapila's view, which contradicts Scripture, is founded on error, and cannot therefore be used to modify the sense of the Vedanta-texts. Here finishes the adhikarana treating of 'Smriti. Hereby the Yoga is refuted. By the above refutation of Kapila's Smriti the Yoga-smriti also is refuted.
Then sending for Ansuman, the son of Asamanjas, and his own grandson, he, O chief of Bharata's race! spake the following words, "Those same sixty thousand sons of unmeasured strength having encountered Kapila's wrath, have met their death on my account. "Yudhishthira said, 'O saint, whose sole wealth consists in religious practices!
For I am the enjoyer and the Lord of all sacrifices; but they know me not in truth and hence they fall, and 'Thou art ever worshipped by me with sacrifices; thou alone, bearing the form of pitris and of gods, enjoyest all the offerings made to either. Nor finally can we admit the contention that it is rational to interpret the Vedanta-texts in accordance with Kapila's Smriti because Kapila, in the Svetasvatara text, is referred to as a competent person.
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