is according to the nature of the meditation

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In the text of the Chhandogya Upanishad, III., 14. 1, it has been said «as is the faith of a man in this life, so will be his condition in the next». And in the succeeding verses of the same Khanda, it has been taught that Brahman should be meditated upon as possessing the attributes of Lordliness and as well as those of Beauty and Sweetness. It has also been shown above, that there is no conflict in these two forms of meditation, the Lord as Majestic and the Lord as All-beautiful. The Jivas follow one or other of these modes of meditation, according to the will of the Lord, and the training obtained by them in the company of the Good and Holy men belonging to that particular order of devotion. By any one of those two methods the Lord is reached, as has been shown in the Sutra III., 3. 29.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt: Does the man reach that particular aspect of the Lord, possessing those particular qualities, which he has been meditating upon or does he reach the Lord as possessing every quality, over and above, that so meditated upon? In other words, will the devotee of the Lord, the Beautiful, see the Lord in Mukti as Beautiful alone, or as Majestic also and vice-versa?

Purvapaksha: The object of meditation being one, the devotee, when he reaches that object, will see It in the fulness of all Its qualities, and not only possessing those qualities which he had meditated upon. It is something analogous to meditating on the Lord with a few qualities or with a combination of all qualities.

Siddhanta: This view is set aside in the next Sutra.

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