________________
VICHAR 1.4-LA.
55
desire for release and acquisition of supremo felicity of Brahma. Therefore a qualified person is one whose heart is pure, mind restrained, and who is endowed with the four means of knowedge :-Discrimination, Indifference, Passivity etc., and Desire of relcase
Such a qualified person has recourse To hearing the Vedanta-a work full of knowlodge, Till he reaps the result, Non-duality. And ascertains it well.
That qualificd individual has recourse to 'hearing' for ascertaining the drift of the Upanishads concerning Brahma, with the help of the six wcans of knowledge.
They are :
1. The commencement and the conclusion (Upakramopsanghara).
2. Repetition (Abhyasa). 3. Novelty (Apurvata). 4. Result (Phala). 6. Illustratiour by praise (Arthavada) and 6. IMustration by supporting urguments (Upapati).
These are the means for determining the purport,
1. "The commencement and conclusion' is tho method of explaining the subject which a work treats of, by referring to it in the beginning and concluding part of tho chapter. As iu the sixth chapter of the Chhandogya Upanishad where the subject is mentioned in the opening and termination in the following manner. "There is but one Brahma without a second"; and “This spirit is universal."
2. Repetition' is the repeated mention of the subject several times in the same chapter by way of explanation. As in the same sixth chapter "That art thou" has been repcated vinc times for explaining the secondloss Reality Brahina,
