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[SŪ. 3. 3. 21. ADH. 7.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 613 Here the doubt is as to whether the stated names are each to be meditated on singly in its own place (i e. where mentioned), or whether each is to be meditated on in both the places as combined with the other Just as in the Śāṇḍilya-vidyā there is a mutual combination of attributes on account of their connection with an identical vidyā, “so elsewhere too”, i e in the case of the orb of the sun and the eye, the two names are to be mutually combined in both the places “on account of their connection” with an identical vidyā,—this is the meaning of the prima facie aphorism. COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 21 in his commentary He begins a new adhikaraṇa here (five sūtras), concerned with the worship of the aveśāvatāras or God-possessed souls like Nārada and so on. The question is whether they too are to be meditated on as possessed of the attributes of the Lord Himself. This is the prima facie view: “On account of (their intimate) connection (with the Lord Himself), in others also (i.e. the God-possessed souls), (are to be meditated on) thus, (i.e. as possessed of the attributes of the Lord ”.¹ CORRECT CONCLUSION (Sūtras 21-22) SŪTRA 21 “OR NOT, ON ACCOUNT OF DIFFERENCE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha But the correct conclusion is that “on account of the difference” of place, (such) a combination is “not” appropriate. Vedānta-kaustubha (The author) refutes (the above view). The names are “not” to be combined. Why? “On account of difference,” i.e on account of the difference of place. Just as the attribute, stated of a teacher when seated, does not belong to him ¹ G B. 3.3.21, p. 147, Chap. 3.