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[SŪ. 1. 1. 32. ADH 11.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 89 COMPARISON Śaṃkara This is sūtra 31 in his commentary. Reading same. He gives two alternative explanations of the second part of the sūtra, viz. the reply to the objection, thus.— (1) ‘If it be objected . . . , (then, we reply:)—On account of the threefoldness of meditation, (i.e. your interpretation would involve the assumption of devout meditation of three kinds, viz. on the individual soul, on the chief vital-breath and on Brahman, but one and the same section cannot teach three different kinds of things). (Moreover, the word “vital-breath” must denote Brahman here,) on account of (that meaning) being accepted (elsewhere), on account of connection here (i.e in the passage itself characteristic marks of Brahman are mentioned). (Hence the conclusion is that Brahman is the topic of the whole chapter.)’ This interpretation is different from Nimbārka’s interpretation. Or, ‘If it be objected . . . , (then, we reply:) (the charac- teristic marks of the individual soul and the chief vital-breath are not out of place in a chapter which deals with Brahman) on account of the threefoldness of meditation (i e. because this chapter aims simply at advocating thereby the three ways of meditating on Brahman, viz. under the aspect of the prāṇa, under the aspect of prajñā, and in itself, according as Brahman is viewed either with reference to the two limiting adjuncts, or in itself); because (in other passages also we find that meditation on Brahman is) made dependant (on Brahman being qualified by limiting adjuncts—cf. Chānd. 3.14 2); because (the hypothesis that Brahman is meditated on under three aspects) is perfectly consistent here (i e. in the prāṇa chapter ¹). This inter- pretation too does not tally with Nimbārka’s interpretation, for Nimbārka does not hold that the sentient and the non-sentient— under the aspects of which Brahman is meditated on—are limiting adjuncts of Brahman.- Rāmānuja Reading and interpretation same. According to Rāmānuja, the three kinds of meditation are:— (1) Meditation on Brahman in His own nature as the cause of the world, (2) meditation on Brahman as ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― 1 Ś B. 1.1 31, pp 255 ff.