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may even consider him as a king of artistes on that instrument; and yet, in effect, he can never gain a sovereignity, permanent and complete, over his audience through his instrument.
Similarly, the various schools of philosophy are intellectual entertainments no doubt; and yet, the seeker cannot gain the status of God-hood by merely dabbling in philosophy. To a king, playing upon any instrument of music may provide an entertainment to himself and to his friends; but his empire is not won, or order maintained among the people, and the royal dignity nourished through his Veenaproficiency.
On the whole, the idea that Acharya Sankara. wants to emphasize is that any amount of philosophical studies, even a mastery of all the six different schools, cannot bring about the complete evolutionary fulfilment in ourselves.
The term Samrajya has a pregnant Upanishadic flavour; in the ancient literature this term is used for the Kingdom of God within.
वाग्वैखरी शब्दझरी शास्त्रव्याख्यान कौशलम् ।
àguzi fagui augmù a 3 ymà || 46 ||
vägvaikhari sabdanjari śāstravyākhyānakausalam vaiduṣyam viduṣām tadvadbhuktaye na tu muktaye 58.
वाग्वैखरी - Loud speech, शब्दझरी- a stream of words, शास्त्रव्याख्यान कौशलम् - efficiency in conmmenting upon the scriptures, वैदुष्यम् - erudition, ag- of learned people, तद्वत् - like that, भुक्तये - for material satisfaction, not, but, - for liberation.
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Loud speech in an avalanche of words, the efficiency in expounding or commenting upon the great text-books, extreme erudition-these bring but a little joyous, material satisfaction to the scholar; but they are insufficient for liberating him completely; only Bhog and not Yog.
According to the Yoga astra they give us the various subtle stages of metamorphosis of a thought or a desire be
