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SUTRA III. 4. 37.

अपि स्मर्यते॥३.४.३७॥

api smaryate ..3.4.37..

.. Api, also. … Smaryate, it is mentioned in the Smritis.

COMMENTARY

In the Bhagavata Purana (II., 2. 37) we find the following:

Those who hear the life-giving, words from the mouths of good men, who are as if the Self of the Lord, and who fill the cups of their ears with the nectar of those words, they- purify the hearts tainted with evil, and ultimately they reach the lotus feet of the Lord.

This shows that the words of the good .men have the power of purifying the soul and carrying it to the feet of the Master.

Similarly, in the Bhagavata Purana (V., 12. 12), we have the following:

O Rahugana! this state is not to be obtained through austerity, nor through Pujas, nor through feeding the poor or housing the homeless, nor through the study of the Vedas, nor by the worship of the Devas of water, fire or the sun, but through the anointing of the body with the dust of the feet of the Holy Ones, the Mahatmas.

This also shows that the dust of the feet of the Mahatmas, the service of the Holy Ones, is the unfailing means of acquiring Vidya, and that the company of i he good has greater effect than one’s own exertion. The word ‘Api’ also indicates that moral qualifications like truthfulness and the rest are also necessary. Stronger than all ritualistic works, are the moral qualities of truthfulness, prayer, service of the «Wasters, celibacy, etc., as mentioned under (I., 1. 1., page 7).

The Nirapekshas, who have the good fortune of getting the company of the Holy Ones, easily acquire Vidya, because on them there is the special grace of the supreme Lord. The next Sutra mentions this fact.

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