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always kept a secret and imparted only to the fit

The author now teaches that Vidya» or Divine Wisdom is a mystery, and should be kept secret. In the Shvetashvatara it is written:

This highest mystery in the Vedanta, delivered in a former age, should not be given to one whose passions have not been subdued, nor to one who has not a son, or who has not a pupil.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt: Should this Vidya be imparted to every one or to a select few only?

Purvapaksha: The Masters of Wisdom are also Masters of Compassion; To impart knowledge to the fit and withhold it from the unfit, to discriminate who is fit and who is unfit, goes against their compassionate nature which loves all; and consequently, the Vidya must be revealed to all indiscriminately.

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

SUTRA III. 4. 50.

अनाविष्कुर्वन्नन्वयात्॥३.४.५०॥

anāviṣkurvannanvayāt ..3.4.50..

… Anavishkurvan, not making it manifest Anvayat, because of the connection.

50. Let the Master teach the disciple not to reveal the doctrine, for such is the ancient usage. — 479.

COMMENTARY

Let him instruct the pupil not to reveal the teaching. Why? Anvayat; Because in the above text of the Shvetashvatara, the instruction is expressly to that effect. So also says the Lotus-eyed Lord Krishna in the Gita (XVIII., 67):

Never is this to be spoken by thee to anyone who is without asceticism, nor without devotion, nor to one who desireth not to listen, nor yet to him who speaketh evil of Me.

The teaching becomes fruitful when given to the worthy, and bears no fruit, when it falls on unworthy soil. For the Shruti says (Shvet, VI, 23):

If these truths have been told to a high-minded man, win feels the highest devotion for God, and for his Guru as for God, then they will shine forth, — then they will shine forth indeed.

So also in the story of the two pupils of Prajapati, given in the Chhandogya Upanishad, we find the same thing. The Asura king, Virochana, and the Deva king, Indra, both heard a voice proclaiming. (Chh. Up., VIII, 7. 1):

Prajapati proclaimed: «The Atman, who is free from sins, free from old age, free from death, free from grief, free from hunger, free from thirst, he whoso desires are true, whose will is true, he ought to be searched out, he ought to be understood. He who has known that Atman indirectly and has also realised Him, attains all worlds and all desires».

Both went to Prajapati to learn the meaning of this parable. Both were taught equally in the same words. But Virochana, deduced from those words, through his perverse intellect the doctrine of materialism, and Indra the doctrine of life eternal. Virochana failed to get the realisation of the truth. Therefore, Vidya must be taught to the fit only and not to the unworthy. The fit are those who are devoted to the Lord as revealed and established in the world-scriptures, and who are endowed with faith.

Adhikarana XV — The time of the

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