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[sū. 3. 3. 53 ADH. 22.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 695 Baladeva This is sūtra 56 in his commentary. He begins a new adhikaraṇa here (three sūtras), concerned with an absolutely different topic, viz. different kinds of realizations in accordance with the different kinds of devotion. Hence the sūtra: “(During release, there is) no (percep- tion of the Lord as possessed of the attributes) other (than those with which He was meditated upon in this life), on account of the existence (of the Lord) as having that nature (i e. attributes) (during release), as in the case of knowledge”. That is, when a man, conceiv- ing a thing in a particular form, meditates on it as such, he obtains that thing in that particular form. Similarly, the devotees who meditates on the Lord as the Sweet, realizes Him as such during release; and who meditates on Him as the Majestic, realizes Him as such.¹ Adhikaraṇa 22: The section entitled “Connected with the subsidiary parts”. (Sūtras 53-54) SŪTRA 53 “BUT (THE MEDITATIONS) CONNECTED WITH THE SUBSIDIARY PARTS, (ARE) NOT (RESTRICTED) TO (PARTICULAR) BRANCHES, FOR (THEY BELONG) TO EACH VEDA.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The meditations connected with the subsidiary parts of (sacrifices) like the udgītha, enjoined in the passage: “Let one meditate on this syllable ‘Om’ as the udgītha” (Chānd. 1.1.1 ²) and so on, do not rest upon (their own) branches ³, but are connected with “each Veda”, i.e. with all the branches ⁴, on account of the non-specification of the scriptural text about the udgītha. ¹ G.B. 3.3.56, p. 221, Chap. 3. ² Ś, R, Bh. ³ C.S.S. ed. reads “Sva-śākhāsu”, p. 68. ⁴ C.S.S. ed. reads “Kutaḥ”. Op cit.