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[SŪ. 3. 4. 2. 714 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 1.] (Chānd. 8.7.1, 23. 8 12.6) ¹, “I know this great person of the colour of the sun, beyond darkness” (Vj.S. 31 18; Śvet. 3.8), “Knowing him thus one becomes immortal on earth, there is no other way to salvation” (Tait. Ār. 3.12 ²), “Just as the flowing rivers merge in the sea, discarding names and forms, so a knower, freed from name and form, attains the celestial Person, higher than the high” (Muṇḍ. 3.2 8), “When the seer sees the Golden-coloured creator, the Lord, the Person, the source of Brahma, then the knower, having discarded merit and demerit, stainless attains the highest equality” (Muṇḍ. 3.1.3) and so on,—“so” the reverend “Bādarāyaṇa” thinks. COMPARISON Baladeva The word “puruṣārtha” does not mean only ‘salvation’ according to him, but all the four ends of men, viz. religious merit, wealth, enjoyment and salvation. The prima facie view is that meditation brings about salvation only and not heaven and the rest. The answer is that not only salvation, but all the four end of men arise from meditation ³ PRIMA FACIE VIEW (Sūtras 2–7) SŪTRA 2 “ON ACCOUNT OF BEING COMPLEMENTARY, (THE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE FRUITS) ARE GLORIFICATION OF THE MAN, JUST AS IN OTHER CASES, SO JAIMINI (THINKS).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha As knowledge effects the purification of the agent who is a subsi- diary part of action, it is but a subsidiary part of action, on account of the agent “being complementary” to action. The scrip- tural statement about the fruit is “glorification”, just like the scrip- 1 Correct quotation: “Sarvāmś ca”, vide Chānd., p. 440. 2 P. 199. 3 G.B. 3.4.1.