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[SŪ. 3. 3. 50. 690 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 20.] Vedānta-kaustubha "On account of what is subsequent" to the section concerned with the fires piled up by the mind and so on, viz. the section concerned with world which is filled, beginning "This world, verily, is piled up by the fire (Śat. Br. 10 5 4, 1), and on account of the preceding section,— implied by the term "and" (in the sūtra)—, beginning. "This orb that shines" (Sat. Br. 10 5 2, 1), the "text", i.e. the section coming between them, is "of that kind", i.e. concerned with an injunction about meditation. That is, on account of its association with a pre- ceding and a subsequent sections which have meditation for their primary topic, here too there is the primacy of meditation,—that is what it comes to. To this objection, viz. If in this section, there be the primacy of meditation, then what is the sense in beginning with action?— (the author) replies "On account of majority". That is, "on account of the majority" or numerosity of the details of the fire built up by action to be accomplished (mentally) in the case of the fires which are the subsidiary parts of meditation, there is the "connection", i.e. setting forth, of the fires, the subsidiary parts of meditation, after the fires which are subsidiary parts of action. Hence it is established that the fires piled up by the mind and the rest are subsidiary parts of a sacrifice consisting in meditation. Here ends the section entitled "The majority of indicatory marks" (20). COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 54 in his commentary. He takes it as forming an adhikaraṇa by itself concerned with an entirely different topic, viz. the grace of the Lord. The prima facie view is that it cannot be said that the direct vision of the Lord alone, attainable through devotion 1, in the cause of salvation, for a text in the Mundaka (Muṇḍ. 3.2 3 2) shows that the vision of the Lord depends on the grace of the Lord. 1 Vide G.B. 3.3.49 above. 2 "Nāyamātmā pravacanena labhyaḥ", etc.