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768 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [sū. 3. 4. 46. ADH. 12.] Baladeva Interpretation absolutely different, viz. “the work of the priest, so Auḍulomi (thinks), for (the Lord) is bought for him”. That is, just as an officiating priest sells himself, as it were, to the sacrificer, so the Lord sells Himself to the nirapekṣa devotees.¹ He too like Śaṁkara reads a sūtra “Śruteś ca” after this sūtra Adhikaraṇa 12. The section entitled “The injunction of another auxiliary”. (Sūtras 46– 48) SŪTRA 46 “(THERE IS) INJUNCTION OF ANOTHER AUXILIARY FOR ONE WHO POSSESSES THAT, AS IN THE CASE OF INJUNCTION AND SO ON, (THE TERM ‘MAUNA’ DENOTING), IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE, A THIRD SOMETHING.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha In the text: “Hence let a Brāhmaṇa, being disgusted with learning, desire to live in the childlike state; being disgusted with the states of childhood and learning, then he becomes an ascetic” (Bṛh. 3.5.1 ²), the term ‘ascetic’ may, of course, mean ‘one possessed of knowledge’, yet “according to the other alternative”, it may also mean ‘one given to profound reflection’. Hence, “another auxiliary”, “a third” something as distinguished from learning and childlike state, viz. asceticism, has been enjoined here, like sacrifice and the rest and like calmness and the rest. Vedānta-kaustubha Previously, sacrifices and the rest and calmness and the rest have been determined as auxiliaries to one who is possessed of know- ledge. Similarly, asceticism is another auxiliary to one possessed of knowledge. Now, a discussion relating to this is being undertaken. ¹ G.B. 3.4.45, p. 291, Chap. 3. ² Ś, R, Bh, Śk.