Because there is the command that a person having Vidya must be appointed to perform Karma, therefore, Vidya is subordinate to Karma. — 435.

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SUTRA III. 4. 6.

तद्वतो विधानात्॥३.४.६॥

tadvato vidhānāt ..3.4.6..

.. Tad-vatah, of such a one. … Vidhanat, there being an injunction.

6. Because there is the command that a person having Vidya must be appointed to perform Karma, therefore, Vidya is subordinate to Karma. — 435.

COMMENTARY

In the Taittiriya Samhita we find:

He chooses as His Brahma priest, to perform the full moon and new moon ceremonies, one who knows Brahman.

This shows that performance of the sacrifices requires Brahma Jnana. Otherwise the Shruti would not have insisted upon the condition that the Brahma priest must be a Brahmajna. Therefore, the knowledge of Brahman is subordinate to Karma, for such knowledge only entitles a man to become a priest.

SUTRA III. 4. 7.

नियमाच्च॥३.४.७॥

niyamācca ..3.4.7..

… Niyaniat, there being a rule. Cha, and.

7. Because there is the restrictive rule, that Karma should be performed throughout one’s whole life, therefore, Vidya is subordinate to Karma. — 436.

COMMENTARY

In the Ishavasya Upanishad, verse 2, we find:

Performing works even here, let a man live his allotted hundred years; thus is it right for thee, not otherwise than this; Karma will not bind that man.

This rule lays down an injunction of life-long performance of Karma with regard even to that man, who has obtained the knowledge of Atman.

Some hold that conflicting texts, — (some insisting upon the performance of Karmas, others enjoining their abandonment) — can be reconciled by the view that the performance of Karma is optional for one who has got knowledge of the Self. But this view also is set aside by the above Shruti. The texts, therefore, which teach the abandonment of Karma, have for their scope those persons, who from some bodily defect or other cause, such as blindness, lameness, etc., are not entitled to perform Karma. In fact, abandonment of Karma is strongly denounced in the scriptures. Thus in the Taittiriya Brahmana we have:

«He who stops sacrifices to the gods by not maintaining the sacred fires, verily becomes a killer of his children. Therefore, Karma must always be performed even by the wise».

Thus Vidya being complementary to Karma, is not independent in its action in producing the fruit. In other words, Vulva alone cannot produce Release.

In the preceding six Sutras, Jaimini has advanced his reason for maintaining that Vidya is subordinate to Karma. All those Sutras form the purvapaksha. The author now advances his reasons for differing from Jaimini.

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