Book Title: Satapatha Bramhana Part 05
Author(s): Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford


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VEDÂNTA-SOTRAS.
question what the thing to be enquired into is, says that it is the highest Self possessing the eight attributes, freedom from all evil and the rest, which is to be meditated upon within the heart. And then the Taittiriya-text, referring to this declaration in the Khåndogya, says, 'Therein is a small space, free from all grief; what is within that is to be meditated upon' (Mahånår. Up. X, 23), and thus likewise enjoins meditation on the highest Self possessing the eight qualities. And this is possible only if, owing to unity of vidyå, the qualities mentioned in the first text are included also in the meditation enjoined in the second text.Having thus established the unity of meditations, the Satras proceed to state the practical effect of such unity.
5. (Meditation) thus being equal, there is combination (of gunas); on account of non-difference of purport in the case of what subserves injunction.
The meditation in all Vedanta-texts thus being the same, the qualities mentioned in one text are to be combined with those mentioned in another; 'on account of non-difference of purport in the case of what subserves injunction.' We find that in connexion with certain injunctions of meditation such as the meditation on Vaisvånara, or the small ether within the heart—the text of some individual Vedanta-book mentions certain secondary matters (qualities, guna) which subserve that meditation; and as these gunas are connected with the meditation they are to be comprised in it, so that they may accomplish their aim, i. e. of subserving the meditation. For the same reason therefore we have to enclose in the meditation gunas mentioned in other Vedanta-texts; for being also connected with the meditation they subserve it in the same way.-- Here terminates the adhikarana of what is intimated by all Vedanta-texts.
6. If it be said that there is difference on account of the text; we say no; on account of non-difference.
So far it has been shown that the non-difference of in
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