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VEDÂNTA-SÚTRAS.
with Om the Hotri recites, with Om the Udgåtri sings,' which declares the pranava--which is a 'quality of the meditation, in so far as it is its basis—to be common to the three Vedas, further shows that the meditation has to be employed in connexion with the sacrifice. For the meditation is connected with the Udgitha, and the Udgitha is an integral part of all sacrificial performances whatever.
Of the prima facie view thus far set forth the next Satra disposes.
63. Rather not, as the text does not declare their going together.
It is not true that the meditations on the Udgitha and the rest are bound to the sacrifices in the same way as the Udgitha, and so on, themselves are ; for Scripture does not declare that they go together with, i.e. are subordinate constituents of the Udgîtha, and so on. The clause Let him meditate on the Udgitha' does not indeed itself state another qualification on the part of the agent (i. e. does not state that the agent in entering on the meditation is prompted by a motive other than the one prompting the sacrifice); but the subsequent clause, whatever he does with knowledge, with faith, with the Upanishad, that becomes more vigorous,' intimates that knowledge is the means to render the sacrificial work more efficacious, and from this it follows that the meditation is enjoined as a means towards effecting a result other than the result of the sacrifice. And hence the meditation cannot be viewed as a subordinate member of the Udgitha, which itself is a subordinate member of the sacrifice. It rather has the Udgîtha for its basis only. He only indeed who is qualified for the sacrifice is qualified for the meditation, since the latter aims at greater efficaciousness of the sacrifice; but this does not imply that the meditation necessarily goes with the sacrifice. By the greater vigour of the sacrifice is meant its non-obstruction by some other sacrificial work of greater strength, its producing its effect without any delay.--The case of a statement such as ‘he whose ladle is of parna wood hears no evil sound' is different. There the text does not declare that the quality
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