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

[sū. 3. 1. 18 ADH. 3.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 495 COMPARISON Śaṃkara, Śrīkaṇṭha and Baladeva They reach the same conclusion as Nimbārka does, viz. that the sinners do not go to the world of moon. Only while they definitely say that the sinners go to hell, Nimbārka says that they go to a 'third place' and leaves the question there. CORRECT CONCLUSION (continued) SŪTRA 18 "(THERE IS) NO (NEED FOR THE FIFTH OBLATION) IN THE THIRD (PLACE), BECAUSE OF OBSERVATION THUS." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha "In the third" place, there is no need for the fifth oblation even for the origination of the bodies of those who do not perform sacrifices and so on, "because it is observed" in the passage: ' "Be born" ' (Chānd. 5 10 8 ¹) that their bodies originate even without the fifth oblation which comes in the order of reverence and so on Vedānta-kaustubha It may be objected: The text: "In the fifth oblation water comes to have the speech of a man" (Chānd 5 9.1) declares that the soul depends on the fifth oblation for obtaining a body. And before this oblation, the soul attains the moon. Hence it must be admitted that even those who do not perform sacrifices and the rest ascend to and descend from the moon, in order that they may obtain bodies. To this the author replies here. The path beginning with light belongs to those who are desirous of salvation; the path called the path of father belongs to those who perform sacrifices and the rest. A third place as distinguished from these two is denoted by the term 'place'. In accordance with Scripture, in the third path of those who do not perform sacrifices and the rest, there is no need for the fifth oblation in order that the soul may obtain ¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B.