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and should be meditated upon as such

In the preceding Sutras the author prohibits contemplating the symbols as Self and has enjoined that Ishvara or the Lord Hari may be contemplated as Self. Now he discusses the question about Ishvara and Brahman.

Doubt: Should the Lord Hari be contemplated as Brahman? The texts which show the identity of Ishvara with Brahman are the subject-matter of discussion in this connection. Such as Ayam Vai Harayah, etc.

Purvapaksha: The Lord (Ishvara) should not be contemplated upon as Brahman because in preceding texts it has been said: «He should be meditated upon as Self only and not as Brahman».

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

SUTRA IV. 1. 5.

ब्रह्मदृष्टिरुत्कर्षात्॥४.१.५॥

brahmadṛṣṭirutkarṣāt ..4.1.5..

… Brahma-drishtih, the view of Brahman … Utkarshat, on account of superiority.

5. The Lord (Ishvara should be meditated upon as Brahman, because such meditation is the most exalted. — 486.

COMMENTARY

Just as the Ishvara is contemplated upon as the Self, so must He be always meditated upon as Brahman. (The three terms Atman, Ishvara and, Brahman are identical). Why should this be so? Utkarshat. Because of the exalted state, because the Lord being the store-house of endless auspicious attributes. Such a contemplation is perfectly justified with regard to Him, and is an exalted sort of meditation. The Shruti (also Br. Up., II., 5. 19) says the same:

He (the Lord) became like unto every form, and this is meant to reveal the (true) form of Him (the Atman). Indra (the Lord) appears multiform through the Mayas (appearances) for his horses (senses) are yoked, hundreds and ten. This (Atman) is the horses, this (Atman) is the ten, and the thousands, many and endless. This is the Brahman, without cause and without effect, without anything inside or outside this Self is Brahman, omnipresent and Omniscient. This is the teaching (of the Upanishad).

This text shows that the Lord is to be meditated upon as Atman as well as Brahman.

The same fact is reiterated in other places also, such as «Atha kasmat uchyate Brahma», etc.

Adhikarana V — The eyes, etc., of the Lord should be meditated

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