United States or Iraq ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The Purvapakshin maintains the former view. Up. And these two conditions are not fulfilled unless the soul possess the special powers of the Lord with regard to the government, &c., of the world.
The last clause of the Sutra 'and the immortality, without having burned' replies to what the Purvapakshin said as to the soul of him who knows being declared by Scripture to attain to immortality then and there.
They are not, the Purvapakshin holds, since such knowledge is to be attained in a way dependent on the special duties of each asrama; while those who do not belong to an asrama are not concerned with asrama duties. This view the Sutra rejects.
The doubt here arises whether separate meditations have to be performed on the highest Being in its separate aspects, or in its aggregate as well as in its distributed aspect, or in its aggregate aspect only. In its separate aspects, the Purvapakshin maintains; since at the outset a meditation of that kind is declared.
There is here a legitimate ground for doubt, in so far as, although the general agreement of all Vedanta-texts is established, the Udgitha, and so on, are different in each Veda since the accents differ in the different Vedas The Purvapakshin declares that those meditations are limited each to its particular sakha; for, he says, the injunction 'Let him meditate on the Udgitha' does indeed, verbally, refer to the Udgitha in general; but as what stands nearest to this injunction is the special Udgitha of the sakha, in whose text this injunction occurs, and which shares the peculiarities of accent characteristic of that sakha, we decide that the meditation is enjoined on members of that sakha only.
But only those former works the effects of which have not yet begun; on account of that being the term. A new doubt arises here, viz. whether all previous good and evil works are destroyed by the origination of knowledge, or only those the effects of which have not yet begun to operate. All works alike, the Purvapakshin says; for the texts-as e.g.
The Purvapakshin maintains the former alternative.
They may be combined, the Purvapakshin holds; since it is observed that different scriptural matters are combined even when having one and the same result.
Is that essential nature constituted by mere intelligence as Sugata and Kapila hold; or is the soul as Kanada thinks, essentially non-intelligent, comparable to a stone, while intelligence is merely an adventitious quality of it; or is it essentially a knowing subject? The soul is mere intelligence, the Purvapakshin maintains; for the reason that Scripture declares it to be so. Up.
The support required is elucidation of the sense conveyed by Scripture, and this clearly cannot be effected by means of a Smriti contradicting Scripture. Nor is it of any avail to plead, as the Purvapakshin does, that Manu and other Smritis of the same kind fulfil in any case the function of elucidating the acts of religious duty enjoined in the karmakanda.
Word Of The Day