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502 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 3. 1. 25 ADH. 6.] as herbs and trees, as sesamum and beans" (Chānd. 5 10.6) Here the doubt is, whether rice and the rest become the bodies of the souls possessed of the remnants of their works, or whether the latter come to have only a connection with rice and the rest, just as they have with the ether and so on. Here, on the suggestion, viz that on the ground of the statement 'are born', they are born as having rice and the rest as their bodies,— We reply: They attain only a connection with rice and the rest, already occupied by other souls, entitled to immobile bodies. Why? “On account of statement, as in the previous cases” That is, it has been stated that the descending souls come to be connected only with the objects beginning with the ether and ending with rain and not that they are the souls of those objects, possessing them as their bodies, there being no reference to karmas—where there is participating in pleasure and pain, preceded by the assumption of a body, there is a reference to works, such as. “Those who are of a pleasant conduct attain a pleasant birth” (Chānd. 5.10.7) In the same manner the states of rice and the rest are designated in the text without indeed any reference to works. Hence the text simply means that the souls enter into those rice and so on. Further, the absence of any works, leading to immobile births, on the part of those who perform sacrifices and the rest, also proves that the words ‘are born’ imply a connection merely,—this is the sense SŪTRA 25 “IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT (SACRIFICES AND THE REST ARE) IMPURE, (WE REPLY') NO, ON ACCOUNT OF SCRIPTURAL TEXT.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected that their works like Jyotistoma and the rest are “impure”, involving, as they do, the killing of living creatures, and therefore these lead them to immobile births,—we reply: No impurity is involved in Jyotiṣṭoma and the rest, on account of scriptural injunction.