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[sū. 4. 2. 18. ADH. 10.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 831 On the doubt, viz. whether a knower who dies during night attains Brahman, or not,—if it be objected: In accordance with the statement: “Day, the bright fortnight and the six months of the northern progress of the sun are excellent for those who are about to die. But the contrary times are condemnable”, dying during the night is condemnable, and hence even though one who dies “during night” may reach the rays of the sun, there is “no” attaining of Brah- man by him,— We reply: “no”, i.e. such a view is not reasonable. Why? “On account of the relation lasting till the body does.” That is, the non- clinging and destruction, respectively, of subsequent and prior sins, result from knowledge ¹; also as one's relation with the works, the effects of which have begun to operate, “last till the body does”, they are destroyed on the fall of the body. Hence, there being no more obstructions to salvation, even a knower who dies during night can attain Brahman through the path beginning with light. “And” Scripture “shows” this: “For him there is delay only so long I am (= he is) not free. Then I shall (= he will) attain (Brahman)” (Chānd. 6.14.2). The statement: “Day, the bright fortnight” and so on, on the other hand, refers to a non-knower. Hence it is established that even a knower who dies during night attains Brahman. Here ends the section entitled “The night” (10) COMPARISON. Śaṃkara, Bhāskara and Baladeva This is sūtra 19 in the commentaries of Śaṃkara and Bhāskara. They interpret the phrase: “sambandhasya yāvad deha-bhāvitvāt” differently, viz. ‘because the relation between the vein and the rays lasts till the body does’.² ¹ Vide Br. Sū. 4.1.13 ² Ś.B. 4.2.19, p. 944; Bh. B. 4.2.18, p. 232; B.B. 4 2.19, pp. 53-54, Chap. 4.