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The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja

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• First Pâda
• First Pâda: 1. Then therefore the enquiry into Brahman
• First Pâda: The Small Pûrvapaksha
• First Pâda: The Small Siddhânta
• First Pâda: The Great Pûrvapaksha
• First Pâda: The Great Siddhânta
• First Pâda: There is no proof of non-differenced substance
• First Pâda: Sabda proves difference
• First Pâda: Pratyaksha, even of the nirvikalpaka kind, proves difference
• First Pâda: The bhedâbheda view is untenable
• First Pâda: Inference also teaches difference
• First Pâda: Perception does not reveal mere being
• First Pâda: Plurality is not unreal
• First Pâda: Being and consciousness are not one
• First Pâda: The true meaning of Svayamprakâsatva
• First Pâda: Consciousness is not eternal
• First Pâda: There is no consciousness without object
• First Pâda: Consciousness is capable of change
• First Pâda: Consciousness is the attribute of a permanent Conscious self
• First Pâda: The view that the conscious subject is something unreal, due to the aha
• First Pâda: The conscious subject persists in deep sleep
• First Pâda: The conscious subject persists in the state of release
• First Pâda: In cases of Scripture conflicting with Perception, Scripture is not str
• First Pâda: No scriptural texts teach a Brahman devoid of all difference
• First Pâda: Nor do Smriti and Purâna teach such a doctrine
• First Pâda: The theory of Nescience cannot be proved
• First Pâda: All knowledge is of the Real
• First Pâda: Neither Scripture nor Smriti and Purâna teach Nescience
• First Pâda: Scripture does not teach that Release is due to the knowledge of a non-
• First Pâda: Summary statement as to the way in which different scriptural texts are
• First Pâda: Nescience cannot be terminated by the simple act of cognising Brahman a
• First Pâda: The Vedântin aiming to ascertain the nature of Brahman from Scripture
• First Pâda: 2. Brahman is that from which the origin of this world proceed
• First Pâda: 3. Because Scripture is the source of the knowledge of Brahman
• First Pâda: 4. The connexion of Scripture with the highest aim of man
• First Pâda: 5. Seeing that which is not founded on Scripture
• First Pâda: 6. ...the word 'seeing' has a secondary (figurative) meaning
• First Pâda: 7. Because release is taught of him who takes his stand on it
• First Pâda: 8. And because there is no statement of its having to be set aside
• First Pâda: 9. And on account of the contradiction of the initial statement
• First Pâda: 10. On account of (the individual soul) going to the Self
• First Pâda: 11. On account of the uniformity of view
• First Pâda: 12. And because it is directly stated in Scripture
• First Pâda: 13. The Self consisting of Bliss is the highest Self on account of mult
• First Pâda: 14. If, on account of its being a word denoting an effect
• First Pâda: 15. And because he is declared to be the cause of thatra
• First Pâda: 16. And because that (Brahman) which is referred to in the mantra
• First Pâda: 17. Not the other, on account of impossibility
• First Pâda: 18. And on account of the declaration of difference
• First Pâda: 19. And on account of desire, there is no regard to what is inferred
• First Pâda: 20. And Scripture teaches the joining of this with that
• First Pâda: 21. The one within the sun and the eye
• First Pâda: 22. And on account of the declaration of difference
• First Pâda: 23. Ether is Brahman
• First Pâda: 24. For the same reason breath is Brahman
• First Pâda: 25. The light is Brahman
• First Pâda: 26. If it be objected that Brahman is not denoted
• First Pâda: 27. And thus also, because thus only the designation of the beings
• First Pâda: 28. If it be said that Brahman is not recognised
• First Pâda: 29. Prâna is Brahman
• First Pâda: 30. If it be said that Brahman is not denoted
• First Pâda: 31. The instruction given by Indra about himself
• First Pâda: 32. If it be said that Brahman is not meant
• Second Pâda
• Second Pâda: 1. Everywhere; because there is taught what is known
• Second Pâda: 2. And because the qualities meant to be stated are possible in Brahma
• Second Pâda: 3. But, on account of impossibility, not the embodied soul
• Second Pâda: 4. And because there is (separate) denotation of the object and the ag
• Second Pâda: 5. On account of the difference of words
• Second Pâda: 6. And on account of Smriti
• Second Pâda: 7. Should it be said that the passage does not refer to Brahman
• Second Pâda: 8. Should it be said that there is attainment of fruition
• Second Pâda: 9. The eater is the highest Self on account of there being taken all t
• Second Pâda: 10. And on account of the topic of the whole section
• Second Pâda: 11. The two entered into the cave
• Second Pâda: 12. And on account of distinctive qualities
• Second Pâda: 13. The Person within the eye is the highest Self
• Second Pâda: 14. And on account of the statement as to abode
• Second Pâda: 15. And on account of the text referring only to what is characterised
• Second Pâda: 16. For that very reason that ether is Brahman
• Second Pâda: 17. And on account of the statement of the way of him who has heard th
• Second Pâda: 18. Not any other, on account of non-permanency of abode, and of impos
• Second Pâda: 19. The internal Ruler ... is the highest Self
• Second Pâda: 20. And not that which Smriti assumes
• Second Pâda: 21. For both also speak of it as something different
• Second Pâda: 22. That which possesses the qualities of invisibility
• Second Pâda: 23. Not the two others, on account of distinction and statement of dif
• Second Pâda: 24. And on account of the description of its form
• Second Pâda: 25. Vaisvânara is the highest Self
• Second Pâda: 26. That which the text refers to is an inferential mark, thus
• Second Pâda: 27. Should it be said that it is not so, on account of the word
• Second Pâda: 28. For the same reasons not the divinity and the element
• Second Pâda: 29. Gaimini thinks that there is no objection to the word 'Agni'
• Second Pâda: 30. On account of definiteness; thus Âsmarathya opines
• Second Pâda: 31. On account of meditation, Bâdari thinks
• Second Pâda: 32. On account of imaginative identification, thus Gaimini thinks
• Second Pâda: 33. Moreover, they record him in that
• Third Pâda: 1. The abode of heaven, earth is the highest Self
• Third Pâda: 2. And on account of its being declared that to which the released have
• Third Pâda: 3. Not that which is inferred
• Third Pâda: 4. On account of the declaration of difference
• Third Pâda: 5. On account of the subject-matter
• Third Pâda: 6. And on account of abiding and eating
• Third Pâda: 7. The bhûman is the highest Self
• Third Pâda: 8. And on account of the suitability of the attributes
• Third Pâda: 9. The Imperishable is Brahman, on account of its supporting that which
• Third Pâda: 10. And this supporting springs from command
• Third Pâda: 11. And on account of the exclusion of what is of another nature than B
• Third Pâda: 12. On account of his being designated as the object of seeing, the hig
• Third Pâda: 13. The small ether is Brahman
• Third Pâda: 14. On account of the going and of the word
• Third Pâda: 15. And on account of there being observed in that small ether
• Third Pâda: 16. And on account of the settled meaning
• Third Pâda: 17. If it be said that on account of reference to the other one he is m
• Third Pâda: 18. ... the soul in so far as its true nature has become manifest
• Third Pâda: 19. And the reference has a different meaning
• Third Pâda: 20. If it be said, owing to the scriptural declaration of smallness
• Third Pâda: 21. And on account of the imitation of that
• Third Pâda: 22. The same is declared by Smriti also
• Third Pâda: 23. On account of the term, the one measured
• Third Pâda: 24. But with reference to the heart, men being qualified
• Third Pâda: 25. Also beings above them, i.e. men
• Third Pâda: 26. If it be said that there results a contradiction to work; we deny t
• Third Pâda: 27. If it be said that a contradiction will result with regard to words
• Third Pâda: 28. And for this very reason eternity of the Veda
• Third Pâda: 29. And on account of the equality of names and forms there is no contr
• Third Pâda: 30. On account of the impossibility of qualification
• Third Pâda: 31. And on account of (meditating on the part of the gods) being in the
• Third Pâda: 33. That grief of him arose
• Third Pâda: 34. And on account of Gânasruti kshattriya-hood being understood
• Third Pâda: 35. On account of the inferential sign further on
• Third Pâda: 36. On account of the reference to ceremonial purifications
• Third Pâda: 37. And on account of the procedure, on the ascertainment of the non-be
• Third Pâda: 38. And on account of the prohibition of hearing, studying, and perform
• Third Pâda: 39. And on account of Smriti
• Third Pâda: 40. On account of the trembling
• Third Pâda: 41. On account of light being seen
• Third Pâda: 42. The ether, on account of the designation of something different, an
• Third Pâda: 43. On account of difference in deep sleep and departing
• Third Pâda: 44. And on account of such words as Lord
• Fourth Pâda: 1. If it be said that some mention that which rests on In
• Fourth Pâda: 2. But the subtle body, on account of its capability
• Fourth Pâda: 3. Matter in its subtle state subserves an end
• Fourth Pâda: 4. And on account of there being no statement of its being an object o
• Fourth Pâda: 5. ... the intelligent Self is meant
• Fourth Pâda: 6. And of three only there is this mention and question
• Fourth Pâda: 7. And as in the case of the 'Great.'
• Fourth Pâda: 8. On account of there being no special characteristic; as in the case
• Fourth Pâda: 9. But she begins with light; for thus some read in their text
• Fourth Pâda: 10. And on account of the teaching of formation ... there is no contra
• Fourth Pâda: 11. Not from the mention of the number even, on account of the diversi
• Fourth Pâda: 12. The breath, and so on, on the ground of the complementary passage
• Fourth Pâda: 13. By light, food not being mentioned in the text of some
• Fourth Pâda: 14. And on account of Brahman as described being declared to be the ca
• Fourth Pâda: 15. From connexion
• Fourth Pâda: 16. Because it denotes the world
• Fourth Pâda: 17....the inferential marks of the individual soul and the chief vital
• Fourth Pâda: 18. But Gaimini thinks that it has another purport
• Fourth Pâda: 19. On account of the connected meaning of the sentences
• Fourth Pâda: 20. It is a mark indicating that the promissory statement is proved
• Fourth Pâda: 21. Because (the soul) when it will depart is such; thus Audulomi thin
• Fourth Pâda: 22. On account of Brahman's abiding within the individual soul
• Fourth Pâda: 23. Brahman is the material cause
• Fourth Pâda: 24. And on account of the statement of reflection
• Fourth Pâda: 25. And on account of both being directly declared
• Fourth Pâda: 26. On account of the Self making itself
• Fourth Pâda: 27. Owing to modification
• Fourth Pâda: 28. And because it is called the womb
• Fourth Pâda: 29. Herewith all (texts) are explained, explained
• First Pâda: 1. ... want of room for other Smritis
• First Pâda: 2. And on account of the non-perception of truth on the part of others
• First Pâda: 3. Hereby the Yoga is refuted
• First Pâda: 4. Not, on account of the difference of character of that; and its bein
• First Pâda: 5. But there is denotation of the superintending deities, on account of
• First Pâda: 7. If it be said that the effect is non-existing; we say no
• First Pâda: 8. On account of such consequences in reabsorption the Vedânta-texts wo
• First Pâda: 9. Not so; as there are parallel instances
• First Pâda: 10. And on account of the objections to his view
• First Pâda: 11. Also in consequence of the ill-foundedness of reasoning
• First Pâda: 12. Should it be said that inference is to be carried on in a different
• First Pâda: 13. Thereby also the remaining theories which are not comprised within
• First Pâda: 14. If it be said that from Brahman becoming an enjoyer
• First Pâda: 15. The non-difference of the world from that Brahman
• First Pâda: 16. And because (the cause) is perceived in the existence of the effect
• First Pâda: 17. And on account of the existence of that which is posterior
• First Pâda: 19. And like a piece of cloth
• First Pâda: 20. And as the different vital airs
• First Pâda: 21. From the designation of the 'other' as non-different from Brahman
• First Pâda: 22. But Brahman is additional, on account of the declaration of differe
• First Pâda: 23. And as in the analogous case of stones and the like, there is impos
• First Pâda: 24. ... as in the case of milk
• First Pâda: 25. And as in the case of the gods
• First Pâda: 26. Or the consequence of the entire Brahman entering into the effect
• First Pâda: 27. But on account of Scripture; Brahman's possession of various powers
• First Pâda: 28. And thus in the Self; for there are manifold powers
• First Pâda: 29. And on account of the defects of his view also
• First Pâda: 30. And the divinity is endowed with all powers, because that is seen
• First Pâda: 31. Not, on account of the absence of organs
• First Pâda: 32. Brahman is not the cause; on account of the world having the nature
• First Pâda: 33. But it is mere sport, as in ordinary life
• First Pâda: 34. Not inequality and cruelty
• First Pâda: 35. If it be said 'not so, on account of non-distinction of deeds'
• First Pâda: 36. And because all the attributes are proved to be present in Brahman
• Second Pâda: 1. Not that which is inferred, on account of the impossib
• Second Pâda: 2. If it be said, like milk or water; there also intelligence guides
• Second Pâda: 3. And because from the independence of the Pradhâna there would follo
• Second Pâda: 4. Nor like grass and so on; because milk does not exist elsewhere
• Second Pâda: 5. And if you say, as the man and the stone; thus also
• Second Pâda: 6. And on account of the impossibility of the relation of principal an
• Second Pâda: 7. And if another inference be made the result remains unchanged
• Second Pâda: 8. And even if it be admitted; on account of the absence of a purpose
• Second Pâda: 9. And it is objectionable on account of the contradictions
• Second Pâda: 10. Or in the same way as the big and long from the short and the atom
• Second Pâda: 11. On both assumptions also there is no motion, and thence non-being
• Second Pâda: 12. And because owing to the acknowledgment of samavâya, there results
• Second Pâda: 13. And because the world also would thus be eternal
• Second Pâda: 14. And on account of the atoms having colour
• Second Pâda: 15. And as there are objections in both cases
• Second Pâda: 16. And as it is not accepted, it is altogether disregarded
• Second Pâda: 17. Even on the aggregate with its two causes
• Second Pâda: 18. If it be said that this is to be explained through successive caus
• Second Pâda: 19. And on account of the cessation of the preceding
• Second Pâda: 20. There not being a cause, there results contradiction
• Second Pâda: 21. There is non-establishment
• Second Pâda: 22. And on account of the objections
• Second Pâda: 23. And in the case of space also
• Second Pâda: 25. Not from non-entity, this not being observed
• Second Pâda: 26. And thus there would be accomplishment on the part of non-active p
• Second Pâda: 27. Not non-existence, on account of consciousness
• Second Pâda: 28. And on account of difference of nature they are not like dreams
• Second Pâda: 29. The existence is not, on account of the absence of perception
• Second Pâda: 30. And on account of its being unproved in every way
• Second Pâda: 31. Not so, on account of the impossibility in one
• Second Pâda: 33. And likewise non-entireness of the Self
• Second Pâda: 34. Nor also is there non-contradiction
• Second Pâda: 35. And on account of the endurance of the final size
• Second Pâda: 36. The system of the Lord must be disregarded
• Second Pâda: 37. And on account of the impossibility of rulership
• Second Pâda: 38. ... as in the case of the organs
• Second Pâda: 39. Finiteness or absence of omniscience
• Second Pâda: 40. On account of the impossibility of origination
• Second Pâda: 41. And there is not origination of the instrument from the agent
• Second Pâda: 42. Or, if they are of the nature of that which is knowledge
• Second Pâda: 43. And on account of contradiction
• Third Pâda: 1. Not Ether
• Third Pâda: 2. But there is
• Third Pâda: 3. It has a secondary sense
• Third Pâda: 4. There may be a double sense
• Third Pâda: 5. The non-abandonment of the promissory statement
• Third Pâda: 6. As follows also from other texts
• Third Pâda: 7. But the division origination extends over all effects
• Third Pâda: 8. Hereby air is explained
• Third Pâda: 9. But there is non-origination of that which is only
• Third Pâda: 10. Fire is produced thence
• Third Pâda: 11. Water from fire
• Third Pâda: 12. Earth from water
• Third Pâda: 13. Earth on account of the subject-matter
• Third Pâda: 14. But he; from the inferential mark supplied by their reflection
• Third Pâda: 15. But the order of succession
• Third Pâda: 16. If it be said that knowledge and mind
• Third Pâda: 17. But that which abides in the things movable and immovable
• Third Pâda: 18. Not the Self
• Third Pâda: 19. For this very reason the individual soul is a knower
• Third Pâda: 20. On account of its passing out, moving and returning
• Third Pâda: 21. And on account of the latter two being effected through the Self
• Third Pâda: 22. If it be said that the soul is not atomic
• Third Pâda: 23. And on account of the very word, and of measure
• Third Pâda: 24. ... as in the case of sandal-ointment
• Third Pâda: 25. Should it be said that this is not so on account of specialisation
• Third Pâda: 26. Or on account of its quality as light
• Third Pâda: 27. There is distinction as in the case of smell
• Third Pâda: 28. On account of the separate statement
• Third Pâda: 29. But the Self is designated as that because it has that quality
• Third Pâda: 30. And there is no objection, since the quality of knowledge exists wh
• Third Pâda: 31. Since there may be manifestation of that which exists
• Third Pâda: 32. There would result permanent consciousness or non-consciousness
• Third Pâda: 33. The soul is an agent
• Third Pâda: 34. On account of taking and the declaration as to its moving about
• Third Pâda: 35. And on account of the designation of the Self as the agent in actio
• Third Pâda: 36. There would be absence of definite rule, as in the case of consciou
• Third Pâda: 37. On account of the inversion of power
• Third Pâda: 38. And on account of the absence of samâdhi
• Third Pâda: 39. And as the carpenter, in both ways
• Third Pâda: 40. But from the highest, this being declared by Scripture
• Third Pâda: 41. But with a view to the efforts made
• Third Pâda: 42. The soul is a part
• Third Pâda: 43. And on account of the mantra
• Third Pâda: 44. Moreover it is so stated in Smriti
• Third Pâda: 45. But as in the case of light
• Third Pâda: 46. And Smriti texts declare this
• Third Pâda: 47. Permission and exclusion result from connexion with a body
• Third Pâda: 48. And on account of non-connectedness there is no confusion
• Third Pâda: 49. And it is a mere apparent argument
• Third Pâda: 50. On account of the non-determination of the adrishtas
• Third Pâda: 51. And it is thus also in the case of purposes and so on
• Third Pâda: 52. Should it be said that that is possible owing to the difference of
• Fourth Pâda: 1. Thus the prânas
• Fourth Pâda: 2. The scriptural statement of the plural
• Fourth Pâda: 3. On account of speech having for its antecedent that
• Fourth Pâda: 4. They are seven
• Fourth Pâda: 5. But the hands
• Fourth Pâda: 6. And they are minute
• Fourth Pâda: 7. And the best
• Fourth Pâda: 8. Neither air nor function
• Fourth Pâda: 9. But like the eye and the rest
• Fourth Pâda: 10. And there is no objection on account of its not having an activity
• Fourth Pâda: 11. It is designated as having five functions like mind
• Fourth Pâda: 12. And it is minute
• Fourth Pâda: 13. But the rule over the prânas on the part of Fire
• Fourth Pâda: 14. And on account of the eternity of this
• Fourth Pâda: 15. They, with the exception of the best, are organs
• Fourth Pâda: 16. On account of scriptural statement of difference
• Fourth Pâda: 17. But the making of names and forms (belongs) to him who renders tri
• Fourth Pâda: 18. Flesh is of earthy nature
• Fourth Pâda: 19. But on account of their distinctive nature there is that designati
• First Pâda: 1. In obtaining another of that, it goes enveloped, as appe
• First Pâda: 2. But on account of water consisting of the three elements; on account
• First Pâda: 3. And on account of the going of the prânas
• First Pâda: 4. If it be said that it is not so on account of scriptural statement a
• First Pâda: 5. Should it be said, on account of absence of mention in the first rep
• First Pâda: 6. 'On account of this not being stated by Scripture'; not so
• First Pâda: 7. Or it is metaphorical, on account of their not knowing the Self
• First Pâda: 8. On the passing away of the works, with a remainder
• First Pâda: 9. 'On account of conduct'; not so, since karana connotes works
• First Pâda: 10. 'There is purposelessness'; not so, on account of the dependence on
• First Pâda: 11. But only good and evil works, thus Bâdari thinks
• First Pâda: 12. Of those also who do not perform sacrifices
• First Pâda: 13. But of the others having enjoyed in Samyamana, there is ascent and
• First Pâda: 14. Smriti texts also declare this
• First Pâda: 15. Moreover there are seven
• First Pâda: 16. On account of his activity there also, there is no contradiction
• First Pâda: 17. But, of knowledge and work, as these are the leading topics
• First Pâda: 18. Not in the case of the third place, as it is thus perceived
• First Pâda: 19. It moreover is recorded, in the world
• First Pâda: 20. And on account of its being seen
• First Pâda: 21. The third term includes that which springs from heat
• First Pâda: 22. There is entering into similarity of being with those, there being
• First Pâda: 23. Not very long; on account of special statement
• First Pâda: 24. Into plants animated by other souls
• First Pâda: 25. It is unholy. Not so, on the ground of Scripture
• First Pâda: 26. After that conjunction with him who performs the act of generation
• First Pâda: 27. From the yoni the body
• Second Pâda: 1. In the intermediate sphere the creation is effected by
• Second Pâda: 2. And some state the soul to be the shaper
• Second Pâda: 3. But it is mere Mâyâ; on account of the true nature of the soul not
• Second Pâda: 4. But owing to the wish of the highest it is hidden; for from that ar
• Second Pâda: 5. Or that (results) also from connexion with the body
• Second Pâda: 6. And it is suggestive, according to Scripture; this the experts also
• Second Pâda: 7. The absence of that takes place in the nâdîs and in the Self
• Second Pâda: 8. Hence the awaking from that
• Second Pâda: 9. But the same, on account of work, remembrance, text, and injunction
• Second Pâda: 10. In the swooning person there is half-combination
• Second Pâda: 11. Not on account of place even is there any imperfection of the High
• Second Pâda: 12. Should it be said 'on account of difference'
• Second Pâda: 13. Some also teach thus
• Second Pâda: 14. For Brahman is without form merely, since it is the principal agen
• Second Pâda: 15. And in the same way as a Brahman consisting of light; the texts th
• Second Pâda: 16. And the text says so much only
• Second Pâda: 17. This Scripture also shows, and it is also stated in Smriti
• Second Pâda: 18. For this very reason comparisons, such as reflected images of the
• Second Pâda: 19. But because it is not apprehended like water, there is no equality
• Second Pâda: 20. The participation on Brahman's part in increase and decrease
• Second Pâda: 21. For the text denies the previously declared so-muchness; and decla
• Second Pâda: 22. That is unmanifested; for this Scripture declares
• Second Pâda: 23. Also in perfect conciliation, according to Scripture and Smriti
• Second Pâda: 24. And there is non-difference
• Second Pâda: 25. Hence (Brahman is distinguished) by what is infinite
• Second Pâda: 26. But on account of twofold designation, as the snake and its coils
• Second Pâda: 27. Or else like light and its abode, both being fire
• Second Pâda: 28. Or else in the manner stated above
• Second Pâda: 29. And on account of denial
• Second Pâda: 30. There is something higher than that
• Second Pâda: 31. But on account of resemblance
• Second Pâda: 32. It subserves the purpose of thought; as in the case of the feet
• Second Pâda: 33. Owing to difference of place, as in the case of light, and so on
• Second Pâda: 34. And on account of possibility
• Second Pâda: 35. Thus, from the denial of anything else
• Second Pâda: 36. The omnipresence possessed by that, understood from the declaratio
• Second Pâda: 37. From thence the reward; on account of possibility
• Second Pâda: 38. And on account of scriptural declaration
• Second Pâda: 39. For the same reasons Gaimini (thinks it to be) religious ac
• Second Pâda: 40. But the former, Bâdarâyana thinks, on account of the designation o
• Third Pâda: 1. What is understood from all the Vedânta-texts is one, on
• Third Pâda: 2. If it be said that the vidyâs are not one on account of difference
• Third Pâda: 3. For the sirovrata concerns the mode of the study of the Veda
• Third Pâda: 4. Scripture also declares this
• Third Pâda: 5. (Meditation) thus being equal, there is combination of gunas
• Third Pâda: 6. If it be said that there is difference on account of the text; we sa
• Third Pâda: 7. Or not, on account of difference of subject-matter; as in the case o
• Third Pâda: 8. If that be declared on account of name; we object
• Third Pâda: 9. And this is appropriate, on account of the extension
• Third Pâda: 10. On account of non-difference of everything, those elsewhere
• Third Pâda: 11. Bliss and other qualities, as belonging to the subject of the quali
• Third Pâda: 12. Such qualities as having joy for its head, and so on, are not estab
• Third Pâda: 13. But the others, on account of equality with the thing
• Third Pâda: 14. For meditation, owing to the absence of purpose
• Third Pâda: 15. And on account of the term 'Self.'
• Third Pâda: 16. There is reference to the Self, as in other places
• Third Pâda: 17. If it be said 'on account of connexion'
• Third Pâda: 18. The new (thing is enjoined); on account of the statement of what ha
• Third Pâda: 19. And (the qualities) thus being equal, on account of non-difference
• Third Pâda: 20. On account of connexion, thus elsewhere also
• Third Pâda: 21. Or not so, on account of difference
• Third Pâda: 22. The text also declares this
• Third Pâda: 23. And for the same reason the holding together and the pervading the
• Third Pâda: 24. And although they both be meditations on man
• Third Pâda: 25. On account of the difference of sense of piercing
• Third Pâda: 26. But in the case of the getting rid of it has to be combined with th
• Third Pâda: 27. At departing; there being nothing to be reached
• Third Pâda: 28. As it is desired; on account of there being no contradiction of eit
• Third Pâda: 29. There is meaning of the soul's going only on the twofold hypothesis
• Third Pâda: 30. That assumption is justified; on account of the perception of thing
• Third Pâda: 31. Of those who have a certain office there is subsistence (of their w
• Third Pâda: 32. There is no restriction since all have to go on that path
• Third Pâda: 33. But the conceptions of the Imperishable are to be comprised in all
• Third Pâda: 34. So much; on account of reflection
• Third Pâda: 35. Should it be said that the former reply refers to that Self to whic
• Third Pâda: 36. There is interchange of ideas, for the texts distinguish; as in oth
• Third Pâda: 37. For one and the same highest divinity ... is the subject of that me
• Third Pâda: 38. Wishes and the rest, here and there
• Third Pâda: 39. On account of emphasis there is non-omission
• Third Pâda: 40. In the case of him who has approached Brahman
• Third Pâda: 41. There is non-restriction of determination, because this is seen; fo
• Third Pâda: 42. Just as in the case of the offerings
• Third Pâda: 43. On account of the plurality of indicatory marks
• Third Pâda: 44. There is option with regard to what precedes
• Third Pâda: 45. And on account of the transfer
• Third Pâda: 46. But it is a meditation only, on account of assertion and what is se
• Third Pâda: 47. And on account of the greater strength of direct statement, and so
• Third Pâda: 48. On account of connexions and the rest, as in the case of the separa
• Third Pâda: 49. Not so, on account of this being observed on account of similarity
• Third Pâda: 50. And by a subsequent Brâhmana also the 'being of such a kind' of the
• Third Pâda: 51. Some, on account of the existence of a Self within a body
• Third Pâda: 52. But this is not so, but rather difference; since it is of the being
• Third Pâda: 53. But those meditations which are connected with members of sacrifice
• Third Pâda: 54. Or there is no contradiction as in the case of mantras and the rest
• Third Pâda: 55. There is pre-eminence of plenitude, as in the case of the sacrifice
• Third Pâda: 56. The meditations are separate, on account of the difference of words
• Third Pâda: 57. Option, on account of the non-difference of result
• Third Pâda: 59. They belong to the constituent members, as the bases
• Third Pâda: 60. And on account of injunction
• Third Pâda: 61. On account of rectification
• Third Pâda: 62. And on account of the declaration of a quality being common to all
• Third Pâda: 63. Rather not, as the text does not declare their going together
• Third Pâda: 64. And because (Scripture) shows it
• Fourth Pâda: 1. The benefit to man results from thence, on account of
• Fourth Pâda: 2. On account of the Self standing in a complementary relation, they a
• Fourth Pâda: 3. On account of such conduct being seen
• Fourth Pâda: 4. On account of direct scriptural statement
• Fourth Pâda: 5. On account of the taking hold together
• Fourth Pâda: 6. On account of injunction for such a one
• Fourth Pâda: 7. On account of definite rule
• Fourth Pâda: 8. But on account of the teaching of the different one
• Fourth Pâda: 9. But the declarations are equal
• Fourth Pâda: 10. (It is) non-comprehensive
• Fourth Pâda: 11. There is distribution, as in the case of the hundred
• Fourth Pâda: 12. Of him who has merely read the Veda
• Fourth Pâda: 13. Not so, on account of non-specification
• Fourth Pâda: 14. Or the permission is for the purpose of glorification
• Fourth Pâda: 15. Some also, by proceeding according to their liking
• Fourth Pâda: 16. And destruction
• Fourth Pâda: 17. And of him who is chaste
• Fourth Pâda: 18. A reference only ... on account of absence of injunction
• Fourth Pâda: 19. It is to be accomplished, ... on account of scriptural statement o
• Fourth Pâda: 20. Or an injunction, as in the case of the carrying
• Fourth Pâda: 21. If it be said that they are mere glorification, on account of thei
• Fourth Pâda: 22. And on account of the words denoting becoming
• Fourth Pâda: 23. .. the stories told in the Upanishads
• Fourth Pâda: 24. This follows also from the textual connexion of those stories with
• Fourth Pâda: 25. For this very reason there is no need of the lighting of the fire
• Fourth Pâda: 26. And there is need of all works
• Fourth Pâda: 27. But all the same he must be possessed of calmness
• Fourth Pâda: 28. And there is permission of all food in the case of danger of life
• Fourth Pâda: 29. And on account of non-sublation
• Fourth Pâda: 30. This is said in Smriti also
• Fourth Pâda: 31. ... as to non-proceeding according to liking
• Fourth Pâda: 32. The works of the âsramas
• Fourth Pâda: 33. And on account of co-operativeness
• Fourth Pâda: 34. In any case they are the same, on account of twofold inferential s
• Fourth Pâda: 35. ... knowledge not to be overpowered
• Fourth Pâda: 36. Also in the case of those outside, as this is seen
• Fourth Pâda: 37. Smriti also states this
• Fourth Pâda: 38. And there is the promotion of knowledge through special acts of du
• Fourth Pâda: 39. But better than that is the other also on account of an inferentia
• Fourth Pâda: 40. But of him who has become that there is no becoming not that
• Fourth Pâda: 41. Nor the expiatory performance
• Fourth Pâda: 42. A minor one, thus some; and hence they hold the existence of expia
• Fourth Pâda: 43. But in either case such men stand outside
• Fourth Pâda: 45. They are the priest's work
• Fourth Pâda: 46. There is injunction of other auxiliary means
• Fourth Pâda: 47. But on account of the existence of knowledge in all, there is wind
• Fourth Pâda: 48. On account of the others also being taught
• Fourth Pâda: 49. Not manifesting itself; on account of the connexion
• Fourth Pâda: 50. What belongs to this world, there being no obstruction at hand; as
• Fourth Pâda: 51. In the same way there is non-determination
• First Pâda: 1. Repetition
• First Pâda: 2. And on account of an inferential mark
• First Pâda: 3. But as the Self
• First Pâda: 4. Not in the symbol
• First Pâda: 5. The view of Brahman, on account of superiority
• First Pâda: 6. And the ideas of Âditya and the rest on the member
• First Pâda: 7. Sitting; on account of possibility
• First Pâda: 8. And on account of meditation
• First Pâda: 9. And with reference to immobility
• First Pâda: 10. And Smriti texts say the same
• First Pâda: 11. Where concentration of mind is possible
• First Pâda: 12. Up to death; for there also it is seen
• First Pâda: 13. On the attainment of this, there result the non-clinging and the de
• First Pâda: 14. Of the other also there is thus non-clinging; but at death
• First Pâda: 15. But only those former works the effects of which have not yet begun
• First Pâda: 16. But the Agnihotra and the rest
• First Pâda: 17. According to some a class of good works other than these, of both k
• First Pâda: 18. ... 'whatever he does with knowledge.'
• First Pâda: 19. But having destroyed by fruition the other two sets he becomes one
• Second Pâda: 1. Speech with mind
• Second Pâda: 2. And for the same reason all follow after
• Second Pâda: 3. That mind in breath
• Second Pâda: 4. That is united with the ruler
• Second Pâda: 5. With the elements
• Second Pâda: 6. Not with one
• Second Pâda: 7. And it is common up to the beginning of the way
• Second Pâda: 8. Since, up to the union with ... Brahman
• Second Pâda: 9. And the subtle body persists
• Second Pâda: 10. Hence not in the way of destruction of bondage
• Second Pâda: 11. And to that very subtle body there belongs the warmth
• Second Pâda: 12. ... From the embodied soul
• Second Pâda: 13. Smriti also declares this
• Second Pâda: 14. With the Highest; for thus it says
• Second Pâda: 15. Non-division
• Second Pâda: 16. A lighting up of the point of the abode
• Second Pâda: 17. Following the rays
• Second Pâda: 18. ... the connexion persists as long as the body does
• Second Pâda: 19. For the same reason also during the southern progress of the sun
• Second Pâda: 20. And those two paths are ... to be remembered
• Third Pâda: 1. On the path beginning with light
• Third Pâda: 2. From the year to Vâyu
• Third Pâda: 3. Beyond lightning there is Varuna
• Third Pâda: 4. Conductors, this being indicated
• Third Pâda: 5. From thence by him only who belongs to lightning
• Third Pâda: 6. Him who meditates on the effected Brahman
• Third Pâda: 7. And on account of Brahman being specified
• Third Pâda: 8. But on account of nearness there is that designation
• Third Pâda: 9. On the passing away of the effected world of Brahma, together with i
• Third Pâda: 10. And on account of Smriti
• Third Pâda: 11. The Highest ... on account of primariness of meaning
• Third Pâda: 12. And because Scripture declares it
• Third Pâda: 13. And there is no aiming at the effected Brahman
• Third Pâda: 14. Those not depending on symbols
• Third Pâda: 15. And Scripture declares the difference
• Fourth Pâda: 1. On the soul's having approached the highest light ther
• Fourth Pâda: 2. The released one; on account of the promise
• Fourth Pâda: 3. The Self, on account of subject-matter
• Fourth Pâda: 4. In non-division; because that is seen
• Fourth Pâda: 5. In a nature like that of Brahman
• Fourth Pâda: 6. In the sole nature of intelligence; as that is its Self
• Fourth Pâda: 7. Thus also, on account of existence of the former qualities as prove
• Fourth Pâda: 8. By the mere will
• Fourth Pâda: 9. And for this very reason without another ruler
• Fourth Pâda: 10. The absence
• Fourth Pâda: 11. The presence
• Fourth Pâda: 12. For this reason Bâdarâyana holds him to be of both kinds; as in th
• Fourth Pâda: 13. In the absence of a body, as in the state of dream; that being pos
• Fourth Pâda: 14. When there is a body, as in the waking state
• Fourth Pâda: 15. The entering is as in the case of a lamp
• Fourth Pâda: 16. It refers either to dreamless sleep or to union
• Fourth Pâda: 17. With the exception of world-energy
• Fourth Pâda: 18. ... that which abides within the spheres of those entrusted with s
• Fourth Pâda: 19. That which is not within change; for thus Scripture declares the a
• Fourth Pâda: 20. And thus Perception and Inference show
• Fourth Pâda: 21. And on account of the indication of the equality of enjoyment only
• Fourth Pâda: 22. Non-return, according to Scripture

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