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670 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA [SŪ. 3. 3. 41. ADH. 18 ] knowledge, with faith, with the mystic doctrine,—that only becomes more potent" (Chānd 1.1.10 ¹). Vedānta-kaustubha It has been shown at the end of the previous section that there is a great difference between meditation and work, since the former is the cause of a knower's (attaining) freedom of movement and a supreme place. Now (the author) is showing the superiority of meditation to work, on the ground of the superiority of the fruit of the meditations, founded on the subsidiary parts of work, over that of mere works (like sacrifices, etc ) though performed together with all their subsidiary parts. Now, there are certain meditations which are founded on the udgītha and the rest, the subsidiary parts of sacrificial works, such as · "Let one meditate on the syllable 'Om' as the udgītha" (Chānd. 1 1.1) and so on. Here the doubt is as to whether they are to be inserted regularly in the sacrificial acts, like the quality of being made of parṇa-wood ²; or not regularly, like the milking-vessel With regard to this, the prima facie view is as follows: As the designation about the meditation on the udgītha, viz.: "Whatever one does with knowledge, with faith, with the mystic doctrine, that becomes more potent" (Chānd. 1.1.10), does not mention any separate result, —just as the hearing of non-sinful verses connected with the quality of being made of the parṇa-wood, mentioned in the passage · "He whose sacrificial ladle is made of the prana-wood does not hear sinful verses" (Tait. Saṃ. 3 5.7 ³) (is not a separate or special fruit),—so the meditations on the subsidiary parts of sacrificial acts are to be inserted regularly (in those acts) as their subsidiary parts, just as the quality of being made of the parṇa-wood (is always connected with sacrificial acts) through the sacrificial ladle.⁴

¹ Ś, Bh, ŚK. Vide Br. Sū. 4.1.18. ² A beautiful sacred tree of the wood of which particular sacrificial vessels are made. ³ P. 311, lines 23-24, vol. 1. ⁴ The problem here is as to whether the meditations, enjoined in the Upa- niṣads, on certain subsidiary parts of sacrifices, such as, on the udgītha and so on, are necessarily connected with those sacrifices, i.e. are to be undertaken whenever those sacrifices are undertaken ; or whether they may be undertaken optionally in accordance with the will of the sacrificer. In the former case, such meditations