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[SŪ. 3. 3. 56. 702 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 24.] as well as the Prāṇa-vidyā ¹ and the rest which have a special object and a special result, are to be undertaken collectively or separately. The prima facie view is that though there are injunctions with regard to each of the meditations, yet as the object to be meditated on is everywhere the same, they are to be undertaken collectively. With regard to it, we reply: "Diverse". The meditations are diverse. Why? "On account of the difference of words and so on," i.e. as there are different texts about them like: 'Knows', 'Let one meditate', 'Let one form a resolution' (Chānd. 3.14.1), "But let one desire to enquire into the Plenty" (Chānd. 7.2.3, 1), "Let one meditate on Truth" (Bṛh 4.1.4) and so on. The sense is this. Though the object to be meditated on is the same, yet these meditations are not exactly identical, since the object to be meditated on has different forms, as (variously) qualified by the special attributes mentioned in the texts designating those special meditations. By the words "and so on" other grounds, besides texts, for taking sacrificial acts as different, as demonstrated in the section concerned with that topic ², viz. repetition, number, name, attribute and context, are to be understood. These establish that the meditations are different here too. Here ends the section entitled "Difference of words" (24). COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 60 in his commentary. He too takes it to be forming an adhikaraṇa by itself, but interprets it in a sectarian manner thus: "(The meditations on the different forms of the Lord are) different, on account of the difference of words and so on. That is, the medita- tion on Kṛṣṇa, e.g., is different from the meditation on Nṛsiṁha, because the two words 'Kṛṣṇa' and 'Nṛsiṁha' are different, their forms are different and their mantras too are different.³ ¹ Prāṇa-vidyā or the doctrine of the primacy of the vital-breath. Vide Bṛh. 6.1; Praśna 2; Kauṣ. 3. Vide also V.K. 3.3.10. ² Vide Pū. Mī. Sū. 2.2.1 ff. ³ G.B. 3.3.60, p. 225, Chap. 3.