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[SŪ. 3. 3. 26. ADH. 11.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 623 it is established that there is no inclusion of these in those (vidyās) as the subsidiary parts of meditation. Here ends the section entitled “Piercing and so on” (10). COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 26 in his commentary. He too takes it as forming an adhikaraṇa by itself, though concerned with an entirely different problem, viz. whether like the sweet and majestic attributes of the Lord such as bliss, omnipotence, mentioned above, His destructive and fearful attributes too such as piercing and so on, are to be medi- tated on, or not. The answer is given here. He supplies the word “na” here from sūtra 3.3.22 (21 in Nimbārka’s commentary). Hence the sūtra: “(One who is desirous of release should not meditate on the Lord as possessed of the attributes of piercing and so on, on account of the difference of result (of such a meditation, i.e. because such a meditation does not lead to release as the meditation on the Lord as Sweet and Majestic does)”.¹ Adhikaraṇa 11: The section entitled “Aban- donment”. (Sūtra 26) SŪTRA 26 “BUT IN THE ABANDONMENT (OF MERIT AND DEMERIT, THE TAKING OF THEM BY OTHERS IS TO BE SUPPLIED) ON ACCOUNT OF THE WORD ‘TAKING’ BEING SUPPLEMENTARY (TO THE WORD ‘ABANDON- ING’), AS IN THE CASE OF KUŚA, METRE, PRAISE, AND ACCOMPANYING SONG, IT HAS BEEN SAID (IN PŪRVA-MĪMĀṂSĀ).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha “In the abandonment,” consisting in getting rid of merits and demerits, stated in the scriptural passage: “Then the knower, having discarded merits and demerits” (Muṇḍ. 3.1.3²), the taking,

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¹ G.B. 3.3.26, p. 151, Chap. 3. ² Ś, R, Bh, Śk.