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VEDÂNTA-SÚTRAS.
'He who consists of mind, whose body is prâna, whose shape is light' (Kh. Up. III, 14, 2), that is the lower Brahman.-But is there not room here for the objection that this distinction of a higher and a lower Brahman stultifies the scriptural texts asserting aduality --Not so, we reply. That objection is removed by the consideration that name and form, the adjuncts (of the one real Brahman), are due to Nescience. Passages such as .If he desires the world of the fathers' (Kh. Up. VIII, 2, 1), which the text exhibits in proximity to a meditation on the lower Brahman, show that the fruit of such meditation is lordship over the worlds; a fruit falling within the sphere of the Samsara, Nescience having not as yet been discarded. And as that fruit is bound to a special locality, there is nothing contradictory in the soul's going there in order to reach it. That the soul, although all-pervading, is viewed as going because it enters into connexion with the buddhi and the rest of its adjuncts, just as general space enters into connexion with jars and the like, we have explained under II, 3, 29.
For all these reasons the view of Bâdari as set forth in Satra 7 is the final one; while Satra 12, which states Gaimini's opinion, merely sets forth another view, to the end of the illumination of the learner's understanding.
15. Those who do not take their stand on symbols he leads, thus Bâdarâyana (opines); there being no fault in the twofold relation (resulting from this opinion); and the meditation on that (i.e. Brahman) (is the reason of this twofold relation).
It is a settled conclusion that all going has reference to the effected Brahman, not to the highest Brahman. Another doubt now arises here. Does that person who is not a man lead to the world of Brahman all those who take their stand on the effected Brahman, without any difference; or only some of them?
The purvapakshin maintains that all those who possess knowledge-provided that knowledge be not of the highest Brahman-go to the world of Brahman. For in Sutra III,
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1890 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |