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[SŪ. 4. 3. 14. ADH 5.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 853 on the effected Brahman, or that it leads only those who meditate on the Highest Brahman. Why ? "On account of fault in both ways." That is, because on the view of Bādari that it leads only those who meditate on the effected Brahman, the following scriptural text will come to be contradicted: "This serene being, having arisen from the body, having attained the form of highest light is completed in his own form" (Chānd. 8.12.3), and because on the view of Jaimini that it leads only those who meditate on the Highest Brahman, another scriptural text will come to be contradicted, viz. the one indicating that the knowers of the five fires proceed through the path beginning with light. "Those who know thus and those who meditate on faith and truth in the forest reach light" (Chānd. 5.10.1). Hence it leads the two kinds of worshippers—this the author says: "And he whose intention is that". In accordance with the scriptural texts: "Just as the intention a man has in this world, so alone does he become on departing" (Chānd. 3.14.1), "Just as one meditates on Him, so alone does one become" (Mudg. 3 ¹), one who aims at attaining the Highest Brahman attains Him ; while, one who aims at attaining the individual soul, unconnected with matter and having the Highest Brahman as its essence, first attains such a soul and then the Highest Soul. COMPARISON Śaṃkara Having completed the above topic by taking Bādari as repre- senting the correct conclusion and Jaimini the opponent's view, Śaṃkara begins a new adhikaraṇa here, concerned with the question as to whether those who meditate on symbols too are led to (the qualified) Brahman. He reads "adoṣāt" instead of "doṣāt". Hence the sūtra: "(The troupe of conducting divinities) leads those who do not depend on symbols, so Bādarāyaṇa (thinks), since there is no fault (in speaking) in two ways, and he whose thought is that". "That is, it has been said above ² that all those who meditate go to the world of Brahman, while here an exception is made. But these two different designations involve no contradiction in accordance with the maxim of 'As you sow, so you reap'.³ This is sūtra 15 in Śaṃkara's commentary. ¹ P. 384, lines 7–9. ² Ś.B. 3.3.31. ³ Ś.B. 3.4.15, pp. 965-966.