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ledge perish, according to the texts 'Having dwelt there till their works are consumed' (Kh. Up. V, 10, 5) and
having obtained the end of his deeds' (Bri. Up. IV, 4, 6), to what then applies the text His sons enter upon his inheritance, his friends upon his good works '?—This point is taken up by the next Satra.
17. According to some (a class of good works) other than these, of both kinds.
The text quoted above from one sakha ( His friends enter upon his good deeds ') refers to good works other than the Agnihotra and the rest, the only object of which is to give rise to knowledge, viz. to all those manifold good works, previous or subsequent to the attaining to knowledge, the results of which are obstructed by other works of greater strength. Those texts also which declare works not to cling or to be destroyed through knowledge refer to this same class of works. The next Satra recalls the fact, already previously established, that the results of works actually performed may somehow be obstructed.
18. For (there is the text) 'whatever he does with knowledge.
The declaration made in the text whatever he does with knowledge that is more vigorous,' viz. that the knowledge of the Udgîtha has for its result non-obstruction of the result of the sacrifice, implies that the result of works actually performed may be obstructed. We thus arrive at the conclusion that the text of the Satyayanins, his friends enter upon his good works,' refers to those good works of the man possessing knowledge the results of which were somehow obstructed (and hence did not act themselves out during his lifetime, so that on his death they may be transferred to others).—Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the Agnihotra and the rest.'
19. But having destroyed by fruition the other two sets he becomes one with Brahman.
There now arises the doubt whether the good and evil
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