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[SŪ. 3. 4. 34. ADH. 8.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 751 "Him the Brāhmaṇas desire to know by sacrifice" (Bṛh. 4.4 22) and so on, works like sacrifice and the rest are to be performed also by one who is desirous of salvation. If it be objected that the same works cannot serve the purpose of a stage of life and that of knowledge,— we reply: that is not so, because even the same works may serve different purposes, in accordance with the maxim: "But with regard to one and the same thing being both, there is conjunction and sepa- rateness" (Pū. Mī. Sū. 4.3.5¹). Just as the same quality of being made of the Khādira-wood is laid down as serving the purpose of sacrifices in the passage: "The sacrificial post is made of the Khādira- wood"; and is, again, laid down as serving the purpose of men in the passage: "For one desiring power, let one make a post of the Khādira- wood", so is the case here. COMPARISON Baladeva Here he continues the topic, viz. that the svaniṣṭha devotee should continue to act even after attaining knowledge. Hence the sūtra: "And (the works must be done by the svaniṣṭha devotee) as being auxiliary (to knowledge)", i. e. with a view to its further increment.² SŪTRA 34 "IN EVERY WAY EVEN, THOSE VERY (SACRIFICES AND THE REST ARE THE SAME) ON ACCOUNT OF A DOUBLE INDICATORY MARK." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha "Those very" sacrifices and the rest are to be taken as serving a double purpose, since in both the cases, the works of the same form are recognized. Vedānta-kaustubha The author is proving the non-difference of works. "In every way," i.e. whether taught as duties incumbent on a stage of life or as serving the purpose of knowledge, "those very" ¹ P. 493. ² G.B. 3.2.33, p. 271, Chap. 3.