The Sadhanas called Shravana, Manana and the rest require} repetition, because the Scripture itself repeats the instruction more than once. — 482.

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āvṛttiḥ asakṛdupadeśāt ..4.1.1..

.. Avrittih, repetition. .. Asakrit, not once, many times, repeatedly. … Upadeshat, the instructions being given.

COMMENTARY

The practices known as «hearing, meditating», etc., require repetition in order to produce any fruit. Why? Because the Scripture by constant repetition of the same teaching, suggests that these practices should be repeated also. Thus in the Chhandogya Upanishad, VI., 8. 7, and the following, the teacher repeats nine times the saying, «that is the essence and ruler of all, the desired of all, and known only through the subtlest intellect».

‘…’ Here Shvetaketu is taught the mystery about Brahman nine times before he understands it.

The maxim of the Ritualistic Philosophy is that the dignity of the Scripture is sufficiently vindicated if its commands are carried out once only. (Scriptures say «Perform pilgrimage». The man fulfills the law if he makes pilgrimage once only). Why should then Shravana, Manana, etc., be repeated? Does not this contradict the above maxim? No, the maxim applies to those acts only whose fruits are invisible and manifest in the next world: and not to acts whose fruits are to be seen in this very life. Direct intuition of the Self is a visible; result to be gained in this very life. The fruit is visible or at least may become visible. Such acts must be repeated, because they subserve a seen purpose. It is like the act of beating the rice, which must be repeated till the rice strains become free from their husks. When the Scripture speaking about the rice for the sacrifice says, «the rice should be beaten»; the sacrificer understands that the injunction means «the rice should be beaten, over and over again, till it is free from husk»; for no sacrifice can be performed with the rice with its husk on. So when the Scripture says: «The Self must be seen through hearing, thinking and reflecting», it means the repetition of these mental processes, so long as the Self is not seen.

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