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[sū. 1 3 33. 192 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 8.] rest) refer to the Light That is, the sun and the rest are not sentient deities, possessed of bodies, but are mere non-sentient spheres of light, and what is non-sentient cannot be, evidently, entitled to any meditation ¹ CORRECT CONCLUSION (Sūtra 33) SŪTRA 33 “BUT BĀDARĀYAṆA (MAINTAINS) THE EXISTENCE (OF RIGHT ON THE PART OF THE GODS), FOR THERE IS (POSSIBLE LONGING FOR BRAHMAN ON THEIR PART).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha With regard to it, the author states the correct conclusion. “Bādarāyaṇa” maintains “the existence” of right on the part of the sun, Vasu and the rest, to the honey-meditation and the like as well, “because” a longing for Brahman “is” possible on their parts, conse- quent on the attainment by them of their respective offices in a future age as well, through the worship of Brahman, their Inner Controller. Vedānta-kaustubha Having thus set forth the view of Jaimini, his Holiness, wishing to refute it, is stating his own view. The word “but” precludes the prima facie view. The reverend “Bādarāyaṇa” maintains “the existence”, i.e. the existence of right on the part of the sun, Vasu and others, to the honey-meditation and the like as well, “because” a longing for Brahman is possible on the part of even the sun and Vasu and the rest in the present age, consequent on their attainment of sun-hood, Vasu-hood and the rest in a future age as well, through the worship of Brahman, their Inner Controller. Thus, here the worship of Brahman being enjoined both in His effected and causal states, the words ‘sun’ and the rest, imply Brahman, their Inner Controller; and hence it is possible for the very same Vasu and others to be the objects to be worshipped and attained, since the concluding text: ‘He who knows this Brahma-Upaniṣad’ (Chānd. 3.11.3) proves that the words ‘sun’ and the rest, imply

1 S.B. 1.3.32, pp. 336-67; Bh. B. 1.3 32, p. 66.