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SUTRA III. 1. 20.

स्मर्यतेऽपि च लोके॥३.१.२०॥

smaryate’pi ca loke ..3.1.20..

.. Smaryate, is recorded, is said in the Smritis. .. Api cha, and, as well as, moreover, … Loke, in the world.

20. The Smritis record that in this world also the fifth oblation is not necessary in their case. — 311.

COMMENTARY

In the Smritis there are accounts of some holy persons being born without the fifth oblation. The getting of body by the fifth oblation is the usual course of nature. But holy men like Drona, etc., were born without a mother and Dhrishtadyumna, etc., without a father, In their case the number of oblations was incomplete. It is possible that an embodiment may take place without passing through the five oblations or stages mentioned in the Chhandogya. In other words, sexual generation is not a universal law of nature, for we see exceptions to it in the cases of lower creatures; and in the cases of some specially meritorious human beings like Drona, Dhrishtadyumna.

SUTRA III. 1. 21.

दर्शनाच्च॥३.१.२१॥

darśanācca ..3.1.21..

... Darshanat, on account of direct perception, or being seen. .. Cha, and.

21. And it is seen that beings originate independently of sexual union, and the Scriptures so describe it. — 312.

COMMENTARY

In the Chhandogya Upanishad (VI., 3. 1), we find three origins mentioned with regard to all beings:

Of these beings verily there are three sources only (namely, the Fire, the Water and the Earth). All living beings are produced either from an egg, or are viviparous, or are produced by fission.

Here the heat-born and the plants are mentioned as originating without sexual union, and so the fifth oblation is not absolutely necessary to procreate the body. It thus follows that procreation by sexual union is possible in the case of those Jivas only who ascend to the world of Moon, and descend there form to take up a human birth. But those whose Karma is not such as to take them to the Moon-world, their re-birth takes place in lower organisms, without the fifth oblation. In their case the re-birth may take place from mere water without the fifth oblation. In the Scriptures we do not find any prohibition to the contrary.

But — says an objector — we do not find any mention in the text quoted by you of beings originating from heat It only mentions three kinds of reproduction, namely egg-born live-born, and born by fission. This objection is answered in the next Sutra.

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