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[sū. 3. 3 33. ADH. 15 ] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 645 entrusted with offices like composing the Veda and so on, "there is abiding so long as the office lasts", owing to the non-cessation of the works which have already begun to bear fruits and which brought about the office. Hence, in their case too, when through retributive enjoy- ment, the works which have begun to bear fruits and which brought about the office become exhausted; and when the office (thereby) comes to an end, there result the decay of all works at the time of their separation from the final body and the (subsequent) attain- ment (by them) of the path beginning with light. Here ends the section entitled 'So long as the office lasts' (14). Adhikaraṇa 15: The section entitled "The con- ception of the Imperishable". (Sūtras 33-34) SŪTRA 33 "BUT THERE IS THE COMPREHENSION (IN ALL BRAHMA-VIDYĀS) OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF THE IMPERISHABLE, ON ACCOUNT OF GENERALITY AND ON ACCOUNT OF BEING THAT, AS IN THE CASE OF WHAT BELONGS TO THE UPASAD, THAT HAS BEEN SAID." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha There should be the inclusion, under all meditations on Brahman, of the conceptions of non-grossness and the rest, connected with the Imperishable, stated in the text: "That, verily, O Gārgī, the Brāhmaṇas call the Imperishable, non-gross, non-atomic, non-short" (Bṛh. 3.8.8 ¹). Why? Because everywhere the Imperishable, viz. Brahman, the chief, is the same; and because those attributes of non- grossness and the rest form essential parts of an investigation into His real nature; just as in the Jāmadagnya-ahīna ² sacrifice, in which the Upasad ³ offerings are to consist of puraḍāś ⁴, the sacred formula read ¹ Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B. ² A sacrifice lasting four days, called 'Jāmadagnya' because offered by Jāmadagni. Vide Tait. Saṁ. 7.1.9. See V.K. 3.3.33. ³ Name of a ceremony lasting several days and forming part of the Jyoti- ṣṭoma sacrifice. ⁴ A puraḍāś is a sacrificial cake of ground rice, usually divided into pieces and offered in one or more cups (or kapāla).