वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[sū. 1. 1. 1. ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 7 release,—such is the construction,—in accordance with the following scriptural passages: viz. ‘Having examined the worlds acquired by work, let a Brāhmaṇa be indifferent to them’ (Muṇḍ. 1.2.12), ‘When the seer sees the golden-coloured Creator, the Lord, the Person, the source of Brahmā, the wise man, having discarded merit and demerit, and stainless, attains supreme identity’ (Muṇḍ. 3.1.3), ‘When he sees the other, the Lord who is propitious and His great- ness, he comes to be freed from sorrow’ (Muṇḍ. 3 1.2; Śvet. 4.7), ‘Thinking itself and the Mover as different, then favoured by Him, it goes to immortality’ (Śvet. 1.6), ‘The knot of the heart is broken, all doubts are solved and his works perish, when He, who is high and low, is seen’ (Muṇḍ. 2.2 8), ‘He can be obtained by him alone whom He chooses. To him this self reveals its own form’ (Kaṭha 2 23), ‘One who has come to be freed from sorrow sees Him who is without active will and His greatness, through the grace of the Lord’ (Śvet. 3.20), ‘For the sake of this knowledge, let him, with fuel in hand, approach the teacher alone, who is versed in Scripture, and devoted to Brahman. To him, who has approached him, whose mind is completely calm, and who is endowed with tranquillity, the wise teacher truly told that knowledge of Brahman, through which he knows the Imperishable, the Person, the True’ (Muṇḍ. 1.2.12-13), ‘Be one to whom the preceptor is a God’ (Tait. 1.11), ‘To one who has the highest devotion for the Lord, as for God so for his teacher, to that great-souled one these matters which have been declared become manifest’ (Śvet. 6.23). The compound “Brahma-jijñāsā” is to be explained as ‘The enquiry concerning Brahman’¹ The genitive case: ‘concerning Brahman’² expresses the object, in accordance with the rule ‘The subject and the object (take the genitive case) when they are used along with a word ending with a kṛt-affix’ (Pāṇ. 2.3.65, SD.K. 623).³ ‘The enquiry concerning Brahman’ is a compound with the object- genitive,⁴ in accordance with the rule ‘The genitive is compounded, when used along with a word ending with the kṛt-affix (and the compound comes under the category of the Ṣaṣṭhī-tat-puruṣa)’ (K.V.S. 1317, quoted in SD.K. 703).⁵

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¹ Brahmaṇo jijñāsā. ² Brahmaṇaḥ. ³ P. 452, vol. 1. ⁴ I e. a genitive denoting an object. ⁵ P. 496, vol. 1.