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SUTRA III. 3. 26.

वेधाद्यर्थभेदात्॥३.३.२६॥

vedhādyarthabhedāt ..3.3.26..

..Vedhadi, «Kill, etc». or pieces, etc. .. Artha, the result, or the fruit. … Bhedat, being different. .. Na, not (understood from the previous Sutra.

26. The Would-be-free should not meditate on the Lord as a Piercer, etc., because the result of such meditation is different from Release. — 387.

COMMENTARY

The word «Not» is understood in tin’s Sutra from Sutra III., 3. 22. The Would-be- r roe should not meditate on the Lord with such attributes as those of a piercer, etc. Why? Arthabhedat. Artha means here «the result or fruit». Because, the fruit of such meditation is different; that is to say, the Would-be-free wants release and such meditation is not conducive to it. The sense is that the Would-be-free has risen higher than the ordinary worldly men, and consequently he has no right to indulge in prayers of hatred, like those given above. In other words, he has no Adhikara to this. Even the Lord has shown this in the Gita, XIII., 8:

Humility, unpretentiousness, harmlessness, forgiveness, rectitude, service of the teacher, purity, steadfastness, self-control (should be cultivated by the Would-be-free).

So also in the Bhagavata Purana:

The Would-be-free should follow the activities conducive to Nivritti (renunciation), (such as daily prayers, Sandhya, etc.). My devotees should abandon all Pravritti Karmas, (such as Kamya, Jyotishtoma, etc).

Adhikarana XI — Meditation is not obligatory

on Released Souls

Vishaya: In the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, I., II., we find the following:

When that God is known, all fetters fall off, sufferings are destroyed, and birth and death cease. From being intensely absorbed in Him, one goes on the dissolution of the body to the third region, where exists universal lordship, and which is the Isolate (above Maya) and where all his desires are satisfied.

From this we learn that the fetters of My-ness, such as, «this is my body», «this is my house», etc., are destroyed when one gets the knowledge of the Lord. And then there ceases the pain duo to birth and death (for though the Freed ones may be born and die at their option, they do not suffer the pains of birth and death and so practically births and deaths cease for them). This verse magnifies the glory of the knowledge of God as obtained from the study of scriptures. By such illumination, when the true essential nature of God is known, then by meditating on Him, namely, by constantly thinking on Him, on the dissolution of the body (when the Linga-body even is destroyed), such God-knowing man rises above the Moon-world and the Brahma-world, and reaches the third Loka, namely, the world of the Lord. What is the nature of that world? It is full of «Universal lordship» that is, all the super-cosmic manifestations of the Lord exist there. It is the world of «Kevalam», or free from Maya; and by reaching this, one becomes fully satisfied, namely, all his desires are obtained. This description shows that the Lord is obtainable through Scriptural knowledge also.

Doubt: Is meditation on the Lord, enjoined by this verse, optional or obligatory, on the person who has already obtained the knowledge of God?

Purvapaksha: Meditation is obligatory, because it is the cause of inducing mental concentration, by increasing higher devotion.

Siddhanta: The right view, however, is that meditation is optional for the man who has known God, and whose fetters have all fallen off.

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