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[SŪ. 3. 3. 24. 620 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 9.] Om” (Tait. Ār. 10.63; ¹ Mahānār. 24.2), and having stated the fruit belonging to a knower of Brahman, viz. the attainment of Brahman thus: “He attains the greatness of Brahman” (Tait. Ār. 10 63, ² Mahānār. 24 2), the text goes on to say: “For him who knows thus, the soul of the sacrifice” (Tait. Ār. 10.64; Mahānār. 25 2) and so on. As there is a reference to the knower of Brahman by the term ‘him’ here, and as it (viz. the meditation on the person) is mentioned in the immediate vicinity (of the meditation on Brahman), so it is gathered that the meditation on the person here is a subsidiary part of the meditation on Brahman, and that (as such) the former has no reference to a different fruit. This boing so, it is deduced that the attainment of Brahman alone is the fruit of the meditation on the person which is a subsidiary part of the meditation on Brahman. Hence it is established that as the identity of mere names, viz. ‘meditation on the person’ (puruṣa-vidyā), in the two cases, is of no great im- portance, the vidyās are different; that being so, there is no combina- tion of their special features. Here ends the section entitled “The meditation on the person” (9). COMPARISON Śaṁkara He reads “Puruṣa-vidyāyām iva”, instead of “Puruṣa-vidyāyām api”, and explains the sūtra thus: “As (the record of the Tāndins and Paiṅgins is) in the puruṣa-vidyā, (not such is the record) of others”. ³ Conclusion reached, the same. Baladeva This is sūtra 25 in his commentary. Like Śaṁkara he reads: “iva” in place of “api”. He concludes here the topic of the worship of the God-possessed souls, viz. that they, being not equal to the Lord, are not to be meditated on as possessed of His attributes. Hence the sūtra: (“As attributes like creatorship, rulership, and so on, are declared to be belonging to the Lord) in the meditation on the person (i.e. in the Puruṣa-sūktas of the Veda) and (in the Gopāla- ¹ Pp. 774-775. ² P. 775. ³ Ś.B. 3.3.24, p. 790. 10B