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Updated: May 19, 2025
By knowledge effecting the non-clinging of sin we have to understand its obstructing the origination of the power, on the part of sin, to cause that disastrous disposition on the part of man which consists in unfitness for religious works; for sins committed tend to render man unfit for religious works and inclined to commit further sinful actions of the same kind.
For Scripture declares that meditation has to take place 'there, i.e. in the whole period from the first effort after meditation up to death, 'Acting thus as long as life lasts he reaches the world of Brahman. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'up to death. On the attainment of this, there result the non-clinging and the destruction of later and earlier sins; this being declared.
Having, so far, elucidated the nature of meditation, the Sutras now begin to consider the result of meditation. Scripture declares that on the knowledge of Brahman being attained a man's later and earlier sins do not cling to him but pass away. Up. Up. Up. Up. The doubt here arises whether this non-clinging and destruction of all sins is possible as the result of mere meditation, or not.
The immortality referred to in the text 'when all desires of his heart are undone' denotes that non-clinging and destruction of earlier and later sins which comes to him who knows, together with the rise of knowledge, without the connexion of the soul with the body, and the sense-organs being burned, i.e. dissolved at the time.
The texts as to the non- clinging and destruction of sins therefore can only be viewed as arthavada passages supplementary to the texts enjoining knowledge of Brahman. This view the Sutra sets aside. When a man reaches knowledge, the non-clinging and destruction of all sins may be effected through the power of knowledge.
There now arises the doubt whether the good and evil works other than those the non-clinging and destruction of which have been declared, that is to say those works the results of which have begun to act, come to an end together with that bodily existence in which knowledge of Brahman originates, or with the last body due to the action of the works last mentioned, or with another body due to the action of the anarabdhakarya.
Up. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the reaching of that. Of the other also there is thus non-clinging; but at death. It has been said that, owing to knowledge, earlier and subsequent sins do not cling and are destroyed.
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