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tradictory in the Khåndogya winding up with the householder.
49. On account of there being injunction of the others also, in the same way as of the state of a Muni.
As the state of the Muni (Samnyåsin) and the state of the householder are enjoined in scripture, so also the two other orders, viz. that of the hermit and that of the student. For we have already pointed above to passages such as 'Austerity is the second, and to dwell as a student in the house of a teacher is the third. As thus the four asramas are equally taught by scripture, they are to be gone through equally, either in the way of option (between them) or in the way of comprehension (of all of them).—That the Sutra uses a plural form (of the others') when speaking of two orders only, is due to its having regard either to the different sub-classes of those two, or to their different duties.
50. (The passage enjoining bâlya means that the ascetic is to live) not manifesting himself; on account of the connexion (thus gained for the passage).
The passage, 'Therefore let a Brâhmana after he has done with learning wish to stand by a childlike state,' speaks of the childlike state as something to be undertaken. Now by the childlike state' we have to understand either the nature or the actions of a child. Childhood in so far as it means a period of life cannot be brought about at will, and we therefore must take the childlike state' to mean either the behaviour of a child—such as attending to the calls of nature without any respect of place, &c.or inward purity, i.e. absence of cunning, arrogance, force of the sensual passions, and so on 1.-With regard to the
'I am doubtful as to the true reading in this place. The 'va' of the Calcutta edition (p. 1039, last line) has certainly to be struck
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