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III ADHYAYA, 3 PÂDA, 42.
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(i. e. who possesses the knowledge implied in the meditations on the sacrifice), as well as he who does not know 'which declares that he also who does not know the meditations may perform the work. Were these meditations auxiliary elements of the works, there could be no such absence of necessary connexion (as declared in this text). It thus being determined that they are not auxiliary elements, a special result must be assigned to the injunction of meditation, and this we find in the greater strength which is imparted to the sacrifice by the meditation, and which is a result different from the result of the sacrifice itself. The greater strength of the performance consists herein, that its result is not impeded, as it might be impeded, by the result of some other performance of greater force. This result, viz. absence of obstruction, is something apart from the general result of the action, such as the reaching of the heavenly world, and so on. This the Sutra means when saying, 'for separate is non-obstruction.' As thus those meditations also which refer to auxiliary members of sacrifices have their own results, they may or may not be combined with the sacrifices, according to wish. Their case is like that of the godohana vessel which, with the view of obtaining a certain special result, may be used instead of the kamasa.-Here terminates the adhikarana of 'non-restriction of determination.'
42. Just as in the case of the offerings. This has been explained.
In the daharavidyâ (Kh. Up. VIII, 1 ff.) the text, 'those who depart having known here the Self, and those true desires,' declares at first a meditation on the small ether, i. e. the highest Self, and separately therefrom a meditation on its qualities, viz. true desires, and so on. The doubt here arises whether, in the meditation on those qualities, the meditation on the highest Self-as that to which the qualities belong-is to be repeated or not.-It is not to be repeated, the Purvapakshin maintains; for the highest Self is just that which is constituted by the qualitiesfreedom from all evil, and so on-and as that Self so con
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