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[sū. 3. 3. 7. ADH. 2 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 589 fication, viz. ‘ "Let us overcome (the demons) by the udgītha" ’ (Bṛh. 1 3 1), the entire udgītha is the object to be viewed as the vital-breath. Hence as the introductory parts are different, the objects enjoined too must be so, the things enjoined being different, the forms too must be so, and on account of that, the vidyās themselves must be different; just as, even in the same branch ¹, in spite of the sameness of injunc- tions, viz that the pranava, which is a part of the udgītha, is to be viewed as the Highest Self,—the injunction that it is to be viewed as the golden Person is different from the injunction that it is to be viewed as qualified by the attributes of being higher than the high and so on. COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 8 in his commentary He begins a new adhikarana here (two sūtras), concerned with an altogether different topic. It has been pointed out in the previous adhikarana that while meditating on the Lord, all His attributes are to be combined. Now it is pointed out in this adhikarana that that is the case with the svaniṣṭha devotees only, but in the case of the ekāntin devotees, there is no such combination He interprets the word “prakaraṇa” in the sūtra as “prakṛṣṭa karaṇam”, i.e. excellent act, viz devotion. Hence the sūtra: “Or (there is) no (combination of attributes in the case of the ekāntins) on account of the difference of devotion (i.e. because the devotion of the ekāntins is one-pointed, while that of the svaniṣṭha is universal), as in the case of being higher than the high, (i.e. just as the ekāntin worshipper of the golden Person in the sun does not combine the qualities of being higher than the high and so on).² ¹ The rule is that meditations are different when the objects meditated on are different, whether in the same branch or in different branches. If the objects meditated on are not different, then the meditations are identical, in spite of repetition, and serve other purposes. See footnote 2, p. 578. ² G.B. 3.2.8, pp. 122-123, Chap. 3.