वेदान्त पारिजात सौरभ (भगवद् निम्बार्काचार्य - द्वैताद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

[sū. 3. 1. 13. ADH. 3 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 491 of the latter to the abode of Yama is declared by texts like: 'The passage from this world into another is not manifest to him who is childish, careless, deluded with the delusion of wealth. Thinking, 'This is the world, there is no other', he comes under my sway again and again' (Katha. 2.6), 'The son of Vivasvat, the meeting-place of men,¹ Yama the king' (Ṛg. V. 10 14.1) and so on. "There are ascent to and descent from" the region of the moon on the part of those who do not perform sacrifices and the rest, after they have experienced sufferings "in the abode of Yama" in accordance with their own respective works. The sense is that the impious, having undergone various sufferings, and having then ascended to the world of moon, re-descend COMPARISON Śaṁkara, Śrīkaṇṭha and Baladeva This is sūtra 13 in the commentaries of the first two, but sūtra 14 in the commentary of the last. According to them, it does not con- tinue the prima facie view, but lays down the correct conclusion against the preceding prima facie sūtra, thus: "But there are ascent (to the world) and descent (to hell) of others, after having experienced in the abode of Yama, such a course being declared". That is, it is not a fact that those who do not perform sacrifices and the rest too go to the moon. They do not do so. But they descend to the hell, experience the consequences of their evil deeds there, and then ascend to the earth once more ² The literal interpretation of the following three sūtras is the same, but while Nimbārka takes them to be stating the prima facie view, they take them to be giving the correct conclusion. Thus, while according to Nimbārka, Rāmānuja and Bhāskara four sūtras state the prima facie view, according to Śaṁkara, Śrīkaṇṭha and Baladeva, only one.

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¹ See footnote 2, p. 492 ² Ś B. 3.1 13, p. 694; Śk B. 3.1 13, p. 208, Part 9; G.B. 3.1.14, pp. 22-23, Chap. 3. 2