Adhikarana VII — Pashupata system reviewed

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The author now refutes the opinions of sectarians like the followers of Pashupati, Ganesha and Surya. The Pashupatas maintain that cause, effect, meditation (Yoga), discipline (Vidhi), and the end of pain ate the five categories revealed by the great Lord Pashupati Himself, in order to break the bonds of the Soul called herein Pashu or animal. In this system Pashupati is the operative cause, and Mahat and the rest are the effects. The Yoga is the meditation, concentration, etc., through Omkara. The Vidhi is the discipline such as bathing three times a day, etc., while the end of pain means release or Moksha. These are the live categories of the Pashupatas. Similar to this doctrine, are the teachings of the followers of Ganesha and Surya, who hold these deities to be the operative cause, and the Prakriti and time are the causes of the creation of the world through the operative agency of these deities. By worshipping them the Soul attains proximity with these gods, and there accrues complete cessation of all pains, which is Moksha.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt, whether these systems of Pashupatas and the rest are reasonable or not.

Purvapaksha: The Purvapakshin maintains that this system is reasonable, because we see in ordinary life also, that an agent like a potter, etc., is only the operative cause of the jar which he makes, he is not its material cause. God, therefore, is only the operative cause of the universe, and not its material cause. The matter is supplied by the eternal Prakriti. The disciplines laid down also are reasonable and practical.

Siddhanta: This is not the right view, as the author shows in the next Sutra.

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