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follows. Repetition is to be performed because scripture gives repeated instruction. For the repeated instruction contained in passages such as 'He is to be heard, to be thought, to be reflected on' intimates the repetition of the required mental acts. — But the purvapakshin has said above that the repetition is to extend exactly to what scripture says and not to go further !- This is wrong, we reply, because all those mental activities have for their end intuition. For hearing and so on when repeated terminate in intuition, and thus subserve a seen purpose, just as the action of beating, &c., terminates in freeing the rice grains from their husks. Moreover also such terms as 'meditating,' being devoted to,' and 'reflecting' denote actions in which repetition is implied as a quality. Thus we say in ordinary life that a person is devoted' to a teacher or a king if he follows him with a mind steadily set on him ; and of a wife whose husband has gone on a journey we say that she thinks of him, only if she steadily remembers him with longing. And that also knowing' implies repetition, follows from the fact that) in the Vedanta-texts the terms “knowing' and 'meditating' are seen to be used one in the place of the other. In some passages the term 'knowing' is used in the beginning and the term 'meditating'in the end; thus e.g. 'He who knows what he knows is thus spoken of by me,' and 'Teach me, sir, the deity which you meditate on' (Kh. Up. IV, 1, 4; 2, 2). In other places the text at first speaks of meditating' and later on of knowing ;' thus e.g. Let a man meditate on mind as Brahman,' and 'He who knows this shines and warms through his celebrity, fame, and glory of countenance' (Kh. Up. III, 18, 1; 6).-From this it follows that repetition has to be practised there also, where the text gives instruction once only. Where, again, the text gives repeated instruction, repeated performance of the mental acts is directly intimated.
2. And on account of an indicatory mark.
An indicatory mark also gives to understand that repetition is required. For, in the section treating of meditation
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