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[SŪ. 2. 2. 37. 376 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 7.] Adhikaraṇa 7: The section entitled "Paśupati". (Sūtras 37-41) SŪTRA 37 "(THE DOCTRINE) OF THE LORD (IS UNTENABLE), ON ACCOUNT OF INCONSISTENCY." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The Pāśupata doctrine is to be rejected, because it is opposed to the Veda, which establishes a non-distinct efficient and material cause; and because it initiates a false faith. Vedānta-kaustubha Now, the Pāśupata doctrine is being disposed of. The maintainers of doctrines opposed to the Veda have been refuted above. The Māheśvaras, too, are such. They are of four kinds, viz. Kāpālas, Kālāmukhas, Pāśupatas and Śaivas. The basis of their doctrines is the treatise composed by Paśupati. The 'Pañcādhyāyī' ¹ is celebrated to be composed by the great Lord Paśupati Himself. Five categories are mentioned there, viz. cause, effect, concentrated meditation, injunction, and end of suffering.² The cause is pradhāna and the Lord. Among them, pradhāna is supposed to be the material cause, the Lord the efficient cause. The effect is mahat and the rest. Concentrated meditation is stated in the passage; "Through the meditation on the Oṃ-kāra once, one should hold (one's self)". Injunction consists in secret rituals like three ablutions and the rest The end of suffering is salvation. Among these, the Pāśupatas and the Kāpālas hold that during its state of bondage, the soul becomes (non-sentient) like a stone. And the Śaivas hold that the freed soul is consciousness. They have minor treatises of their own, designating their mutual differences. Those Māheśvaras, with their intelligence deluded by the Māyā of the Lord, maintain and practise, just as they like—as the means to the highest end—what is "opposed" to the Veda and not practised by the wise. As the Kāpālas say: "He who knows the six mudrās, he who is versed in the supreme mudrā, he attains nirvāṇa by ¹ Or having five chapters. ² Kāraṇa, Kāryya, Yoga, Vidhi, Duḥkhānta.