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[sū. 1. 3. 32. ADH. 8.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 191 doubt arises, viz. Whether or not the gods are entitled to the medi- tations on the honey and the rest. What is reasonable here? Gods like the sun, Vasu and others have "no right" to the meditation on the "honey and the rest",—so the teacher "Jaimini" thinks. Why? "On account of impossibility," i.e. because it is impossible that the sun and the rest which are accepted as the objects to be worshipped in those meditations, can be themselves worshippers OPPONENT'S VIEW (concluded) SŪTRA 32 "AND BECAUSE OF (THEIR) BEING (WORSHIPPERS) WITH REGARD TO THE LIGHT (I E. BRAHMAN)" Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha "And because of (their) being" worshippers "with regard to" Brahman, they are not entitled to the honey-meditation and the rest,— this is the prima facie view. Vedānta-kaustubha But it is not to be thought that this being the case the gods are without a Lord, because then they, being all of a mutually equal status, will come to be annihilated through vying with one another, and also because the text: 'Through fear the sun arises' (Tait. 2.8.1) will come to be contradicted. The fact is that they are the worshippers of the Highest Self and are themselves worshipped by others. So, the opponent points out here. The gods and the rest, who are the objects to be worshipped in the honey-meditation and the like, being worshippers "with regard to the light", i.e. of the Supreme Brahman, are not to be taken as the worshippers in the honey-meditation, etc.— this is the sense; as declared by the passage: 'That the gods worship as the Light of lights, as life, as immortal' (Bṛh. 4.4.16). COMPARISON Śaṁkara and Bhāskara Interpretation of the word 'jyotiṣi' different The sūtra means, according to them: And because (the words 'sun', 'moon', and the