anuṣṭheyaṃ bādarāyaṇaḥ sāmyaśruteḥ ..3.4.19..

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SUTRA III. 4. 19.

अनुष्ठेयं बादरायणः साम्यश्रुतेः॥३.४.१९॥

anuṣṭheyaṃ bādarāyaṇaḥ sāmyaśruteḥ ..3.4.19..

.. Anushtheyam, (Karma) should be practised. …: Badarayanah, Badarayana holds. … Ramya, of equality. ..Shruteh, account of scriptural statement.

19. (According to) Badarayana (the obligatory duties only) may be performed somehow or other, because there is equality according to authority (between the God-intoxicated devotees, who partially perform Kaunas, and ordinary men who fully perform Karmas). — 448.

COMMENTARY

According to Badarayana, it is only those Karmas which are obligatory that a wise man may perform according to his option; that is, he should perform some part of it and omit other parts. Why do we say so? Because there is statement of equality. The text «Kenasyat yenasyat tenedrishah» shows that the illumined sage performing works in any way, somehow, is equal to him who performs thorn fully. The above Brihadaranyaka Upanishad text clearly shows that there is an equality between a sage performing actions partially and between any other person performing them fully. How can a partial performer of obligatory Karmas be equal to the full performer of them? According to the opinion of Jaimini, this statement of equality is merely glorificatory, for unless a man perform Karmas fully, he cannot be said to be equal to one who scrupulously performs them all. If he leaves any one of those Karmas unperformed, he cannot be said equal to him who performs them fully. Jaimini explains this equality by saying that both are equal inasmuch as both perform the obligatory Karmas, though one performs it partially and the other fully. The full performance of Karmas is ordained for Svanishtha devotee, such a wise man must perform all Karmas. The text reproaching the renouncement of Karmas applies to those men who have not reached illumination, but have renounced Karmas too early. Thus both texts are reconciled. And so for a truly illumined sage, belonging to the order of Parinishthita the performance of Karmas need not be entire. The law is fulfilled by him by the partial performance even of the obligatory Karmas.

Nor can it be said that the texts teaching the renunciation of Karmas are confined to physically incapable persons, because there are no such restrictive statements in those texts. Those verses declare that release is not to be obtained by Karmas or by offsprings, etc., but by the abandonment of all Karmas alone. This general statement cannot be restricted in the way that Jaimini would have it.

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